beway

beway conjunction: by way; because.

Conjunction

beway

(Ireland, Scotland, US, dialectal) By way; because.
- [...] an' then hee'l turn him roon behint-afore an' play treeks, till collie gems at him; an' then beway o' makin friens again, hee'l Btreek an' pat him, [...]1832, the mirror of literature, amusement, and instruction
- Be gannies," suggested Larry, " I think the best way would be for the three iv us to give the artichokes at the fire below, a warm reception beway iv a do sure, an' it'll soften the bargain wid ould Hardrade."1857, Celtic Union, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

beway (plural beways)

(India, rare) Movement; sway; influence.
- The Third Five-Year Plan with an industrial bias will no doubt, help the State of Kerala to make adequate beway in the matter of industrialisation which alone can pull up educated sons of India from their present low economic level.1962, Indian National Congress. All India Congress Committee, Congress election souvenir
- It was further extended and the whole of Hijaz came under the beway of the Prophet in A.H. 8 when Makkah was conquered until this time there was hardly any administration, [...]1988, Qamar-ud-Din Khan, H. M. Arshad Qureshi, Political concepts in Sunnah
(India, rare) Movement away; loss.
- But their greatness admitted, it had been pointed out again, and with pe[r]sistence, that Bengali drama had not progressed in any measure, and that there was too much of a beway to make up.1949, Jagadiswarananda (Swami.), Girish Ghose and his dramas
- It is obvious from these figures that the tribals are educationally very backward and that special educational programmes will have to be undertaken for some considerable time to make up the beway.1966, Virendra Kumar, Committees and Commissions in India

[...] is waistit and destroyit be divers personis that slais the dere and cunyngis thairof, and pasturis bestis thereintill masterfully beway of dede, [...]1864, John Fullarton, Historical memoir of the family of Eglinton and Winton:
Wan was in front, beway he was the ginral, walkin' wid his chin up, proud as a paycock.2009, Bob Curran, Celtic Lore & Legend:
It goes without saying that when Lahore and Delhi Darbars were losing their royal glamour of art and culture, Patiala showed the beway in the whole of cis-Sutlej region.1991, Sanjeev Prasad Srivastava, Art and cultural heritage of Patiala:
There is a considerable beway to be made up in the provision of housing accommodation to workers.1966, Raghuraj Singh, Ishwar Chand Singhal, Labour problems:

From by way equivalent to be- + way. Compare German wegen (“because of, by reason of”).

Perhaps from the phrase "by the way(side)", equivalent to by + way.

What does beway mean?: Beway means by way; because.
How do you use beway in a sentence?: [...] is waistit and destroyit be divers personis that slais the dere and cunyngis thairof, and pasturis bestis thereintill masterfully beway of dede, [...]
What part of speech is beway?: Beway can be a conjunction or a noun.

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