"rightways" meaning in English

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          "text": "She leaned forward, tilted her head, as if to get a rightways look at the snapshot herself",
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          "ref": "2011, Stacy Carlson, Among the Wonderful:",
          "text": "Just get out of my way and I'll be rightways up and out of this cursed tunnel.",
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          "ref": "2012, Di Morrissey, Kimberley Sun:",
          "text": "She began to lose her sense of perspective, what was rightways up or down.",
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        "In a correct or normal orientation."
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          "ref": "2004, Ronne Hartfield, Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family, page 111:",
          "text": "Such hands could turn the unborn child rightways in the birth canal",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Robert Amos, Artists in Their Studios: Where Art Is Born, page 25:",
          "text": "When I work on it rightways up, I am conscious of the figuration. When I work on it upside down, then I'm thinking of the space",
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          "ref": "2009, Tim Sandlin, Rowdy in Paris:",
          "text": "I went out to the hallway to turn the mop bucket back rightways and consider the options.",
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        "In a normal or correct orientation."
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          "ref": "1918, William Hay, The escape of the notorious Sir William Heans, page 398:",
          "text": "Conapanny did not make at once east up the hill, but led a course slanting rightways over the shoulder, descending about four o'clock into the gully on the hinder side",
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          "ref": "1987, R. Conrad, Act of Writing, page 17:",
          "text": "But the trees went uphill and down, turned leftways and rightways, without landmarks or anything to orient me with the tracks.",
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          "ref": "1997, Jack Womack, Elvissey, page 160:",
          "text": "\"They're trying to take out the tires,\" John said, wheeling rightways.",
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        "Rightward."
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          "ref": "1878, Jean Middlemass, “Peter Stott's Dream”, in Belgravia, volume 34, page 25:",
          "text": "Now, that is a thing as I never was asked for before, and don't rightways know what it be; if it's sealing-wax, it's welcome you are",
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        "In a correct or normal orientation."
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          "text": "Such hands could turn the unborn child rightways in the birth canal",
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        },
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          "ref": "2007, Robert Amos, Artists in Their Studios: Where Art Is Born, page 25:",
          "text": "When I work on it rightways up, I am conscious of the figuration. When I work on it upside down, then I'm thinking of the space",
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          "text": "\"They're trying to take out the tires,\" John said, wheeling rightways.",
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        "Rightward."
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