Moving or directed toward a distance; away or off in a direction, often used in nautical or directional contexts.
From away (Old English onweg) + -s, a dialectal or archaic adverbial formation. The -s ending is rare in modern English but survives in some regional and nautical speech patterns.
This word is almost frozen in time—you'll mostly find it in nautical commands or old poetry, but it shows how English once used -s more broadly to mark adverbs, a pattern mostly lost today.
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