Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- From that place or direction; thence.
- In those parts; there; thereabout.
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Examples
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They're farmhands, mostly, and house slaves - not much cotton thereaway, you see - and pretty much part of their masters 'families.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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I dinna mind very weel what I was doing, swaggering about the country with dirk and pistol at my belt for five or six months, or thereaway; but I had a weary waking out of a wild dream.
Redgauntlet 2008
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They're farmhands, mostly, and house slaves - not much cotton thereaway, you see - and pretty much part of their masters 'families.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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They're farmhands, mostly, and house slaves - not much cotton thereaway, you see - and pretty much part of their masters 'families.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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They'd never believe I'd risk it, so they wouldn't look thereaway.
Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970
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The Prince of Wales's birthday up the country was celebrated as usual thereaway by the annual horse-races on the Wyambeet course, about fourteen miles from Caddagat.
My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916
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There be few wars thereaway, wherein is not a great number of them in both parties.
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--- All evil comes out o 'thereaway --- it's an auld saying and a true; and we'll e'en away there, as if the devil was blawing us south.' '
The Black Dwarf 1898
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And he says -- still with his hand up shadin 'his eyes -- ` I don't know, Chips,' says he, ` but I'm most certain, 'says he, ` that one of them boats is thereaway,' pointin 'with his finger away down to leeward.
The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific Harry Collingwood 1886
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As for me, I kept my eyes intently fixed upon the grey cloud of vapour that went drifting away to leeward past our weather quarter; and presently, when we had been hove-to about ten minutes, I caught sight of a thickening in the fog thereaway that, even as I looked, began to grow darker and assume a definite shape.
The Log of a Privateersman Harry Collingwood 1886
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