Definition/Meaning of beway

• English - Conjunction: beway (Ireland, Scotland, US, dialectal) By way; because . 2009, Bob Curran, Celtic Lore & Legend: Wan was in front, beway he was the ginral, walkin' wid his chin up, proud as a paycock. 1864, John Fullarton, Historical memoir of the family of Eglinton and Winton: [...] is waistit and destroyit be divers personis that slais the dere and cunyngis thairof, and pasturis bestis thereintill…
• English - Noun: beway (plural beways) (India, rare) Movement ; sway ; influence . 1991, Sanjeev Prasad Srivastava, Art and cultural heritage of Patiala: 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. 1988, Qamar-ud-Din Khan, H. M. Arshad Qureshi, Political concepts in Sunnah: It was further…
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From by way equivalent to be- + way. Compare German wegen (“because of, by reason of”). Etymology 2. Perhaps from the phrase " by the way (side)", equivalent to by + way.