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单词 west-away
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west-awayadv.

Brit. /ˈwɛstəˌweɪ/, U.S. /ˈwɛstəˌweɪ/
Forms: see west adv., adj., n.1, and prep. and away adv.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: west adv., away adv.
Etymology: < west adv. + away adv. Compare later north-away adv., south-away adv. Sc. National Dict. (at Wast) records the word as still in use in Stirlingshire and Lanarkshire in 1973.
Now rare (chiefly archaic in later use).
Towards the west.
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the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > West > [adverb]
westeOE
west-abouteOE
westeneOE
westwardeOE
bewest1016
westwardsOE
westly1440
westerlya1470
westwardly?1520
westernly1590
west-away1599
westlins1718
west-by1790
a-west1807
wessel1815
westlandways1820
nightwards1855
westbound1888
1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. D1v The sunne descends downe west away, Fra three of clock be past.
1793 H. Boyd Poems 507 The shadowy throng her call pursu'd And mov'd in order west away.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. xiv. 311 Will ony body..grumble at the treaty that opened us a road west-awa' yonder?
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxx If you sailed right west away far enough, you'd surely come to the edge, and fall over cleve.
1893 W. Morris & E. Magnússon tr. S. Sturluson Stories Kings of Norway I. xiv. 105 He had called the land West Gautland north-away to Swinesound, and west-away to the sea.
1932 W. D. Cocker Poems 141 The fair, weel-wooded, pleasant kintry That stretches wast-awa' frae Fintry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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