"elseways" meaning in English

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Adverb

Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} elseways (not comparable)
  1. Otherwise Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-elseways-en-adv-ok7ZNLYe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry
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          "ref": "1871, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewitt, Hurd & Houghton, page 298:",
          "text": "He's rather wearin' in his talk from making up a lot of names; elseways you needn't mind him.",
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          "ref": "1891 September, Rudyard Kipling, “The Disturber of Traffic”, in The Atlantic, issue:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2006, Bryce Courtenay, Solomon's Song, Penguin UK, page 96:",
          "text": "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.",
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