thereaway, adv. Chiefly Sc. and north. dial.
(ˈðɛərəweɪ)
[Orig. two words, there 17 and away adv.]
† 1. Of motion: Away thither, or in that direction. hereaway, thereaway: see hereaway. Obs.
| 1375 Barbour Bruce x. 32 (MS. E.) For gif the king held thar away, He thoucht he suld soyn vencust be. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) v. 15 Schippes..commes þer away for to fraght þam with þat salt. c 1450 Life St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 5102 Þare away to fare. a 1500 Smith & his Dame 30 in Hazlitt E.P.P. III. 202 Ovr lorde came there away. 1549, 1793, etc. [see hereaway 2]. 1601 in Foley Rec. Eng. Prov. S.J. (1880) VI. 735 For such English as come thereaway to Loreto. 1659 W. Guthrie Chr. Gt. Interest ii. vi. (1724) 207 Confirming the same by many mighty Works in Scripture tending there-away. |
2. Of situation: Away in that direction or region; in those parts; thereabouts.
| 1551 R. Robinson More's Utop. ii. (1895) 253 There be fewe warres there awaye, wherin is not a greate numbre of them in bothe partyes. c 1670 Penn Let. in Life Wks. 1726 I. App. iii. 156 Among the Carnal and Historical Christians there-away. 1816 Scott Bl. Dwarf viii, All evil comes out o' thereaway..and we'll e'en away there. 1840 C. Fox Old Friends (1882) 60 The Duke of Wellington..in some mighty action thereaway showed his wondrous power in animating masses. |
3. Somewhere about that (number, amount, age, etc.); = thereabouts 2.
| 1824 Scott Redgauntlet ch. xi, Swaggering about the country..for five or six months, or thereaway. 1830 Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. 328 An old batchelor of fifty-five, or there-away. 1862 Mrs. Grote Coll. Papers 261 A hundred thousand pounds or there-away. |
Hence † thereaway-abouts adv., thereabouts.
| 1828 Moir Mansie Wauch xxii. (1849) 169 The martyrs had been buried thereaway-abouts. |