adv. Chiefly Sc. and north. dial. [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. Maundev. (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, trans. 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, Lett., 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. Caroline 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, Rodgauntlet, 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.
