"direcshun" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: direcshuns [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} direcshun (plural direcshuns)
  1. Eye dialect spelling of direction. Tags: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Alternative form of: direction
    Sense id: en-direcshun-en-noun-6h-nxoM5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English eye dialect

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1868, Anna E. Dickinson, What Answer?",
          "text": "[W]hen de man had tole me how to go, I went right long till I got out ob sight ob de little house, an' den I got into de woods, an' turned right round de oder way an' made tracks fast as I could in dat direcshun.\"",
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