sunwayadv.
/ˈsʌnweɪ/, U.S. /ˈsənˌweɪ/ Originally Scottish. Now rare.
In the direction of the apparent daily movement of the sun; = sunways adv.
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the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > [adverb]
with the sun1584
sungates1596
sunways1662
sunway1775
sunwise1775
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [adverb] > clockwise
with the sun1584
sungates1596
sunways1662
deasil1771
sunway1775
sunwise1775
clockwise1874
posigrade1975
1775 L. Shaw Hist. Moray vi. 335 A small house..around which, Sun-way, the people made a tour with the Corpse at Burials.
1806 O. G. Gregory Treat. Mech. II. 186 In those [roads or furrows] represented in the figures the running mill-stone is supposed to turn ‘sun-way’, or as in what is called a right-handed mill.
1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 277 Sunway, de gauche à droite.
1937 V. Nabokov Despair ix. 232 He saw himself as he was on that photo or in a glass, that is to say, from right to left, not sunway as in reality.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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