elseways

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adverb

Otherwise

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Meanings

adverbelseways (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOtherwise

    He's rather wearin' in his talk from making up a lot of names; elseways you needn't mind him.

    1871, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewitt, Hurd & Houghton, page 298
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    Sometimes you go through Bali Narrows if you're full-powered... Elseways, if you aren't full-powered, why it stands to reason you go round by the Ombay Passage, keeping careful to the north side.

    1891 September, Rudyard Kipling, “The Disturber of Traffic”, in The Atlantic, issue

    It weren't gained on the straight, them two never did deserve it, it were stolen goods, fenced off the poor for a pittance, or gained elseways in an evil manner in Hannah's vile brothel.

    2006, Bryce Courtenay, Solomon's Song, Penguin UK, page 96
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