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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1513
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Thidderward, -wart, adv. Also: thiddirward, thiddyrward, -wart, thiderward, thedderwart, thedirwart, (ydirward), thiddirwardis, thidderwartis. [ME and e.m.E. þider ward (c1175), þider-ward, þiþer-ward, thedir-ward (all Cursor M.), þederward (Rolle), þyderwarde (Piers Plowman), þeder-wardes (14th c.), thither-ward (1433), OE þiderweard, -weardes.] Towards that place; in that direction. Also, on thedirwart.For an explanation of the y form, see the note to Thidder adv.(1) 1375 Barb. i 411.
Thidderwart [C. thiddirwart] went mony baroune 1375 Barb. x 404.
Ane off the wachis … buskyt thidderwart [C. thiddirward] but baid 1375 Barb. xiii 408.
The erle of Herfurd thiddyrward Held, and wes tane in our the wall c1400 Troy-bk. i 259.
Byrdes … That thidderward maid thar repare ?1438 Alex. i 202.
Ȝone folk ar of the oist … That driffis thiddirwart the pray a1500 Henr. Orph. 346.
Thidderwart [Ch. & M. thiderward] he drewe Aye playand on his harpe c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace viii 994.
Thiddyrwart 1513 Doug. i viii 72.
Thar is a place … it is namyt Italy. Thidderwart [Ruddim. Thedderwart] our cours was laid(b) 1375 Barb. xiv 152.
His ost in hy he gert aray And thidderwartis [C. thiddirwardis] tuk the way(c) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxi 107.
Ydirward on a day Scho went(2) c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ii 384.
At Rycardtoun full fayn he wald hawe beyne … On thedirwart as he bownyt to fair Thre Inglismen he met
