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ways noun A distance. [from Middle English wayes, genitive case of way]

1926 Hunnicutt Twenty Years 62 Just a little ways up the hill, the dogs will trail it up in the morning if you have killed it. 1973 GSMNP-2:5 But during them days if they got five miles away, they was a long ways from home. 1939 Hall Coll (Cataloochee NC) He followed the noise of the bear down a ways as far down as he heared it. 1973 GSMNP-83:2 Just down a little ways is where he lived. 1974-75 McCracken Logging 24:10 For a good ways you went through the spruce quite a while. 1978 Montgomery White Pine Coll VIII-2 It was a long ways to them woods.

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