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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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ATWAE, †ATWA, adv. In two. [ə′twe:]

1. Atwae.w.Dmf.⁶ 1932:
Quite common in Nithsdale.s.Sc. 1898 Ld. E. Hamilton Mawkin, etc. xiii.:
It's awfu sair on a body to be torn atwae.w., s.Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B. 43:
Hei cut it atwae.Slk. a.1835 Hogg Tales (1837) I. i.:
I'm like to fa' atwae wi' sheer hunger.e.Dmf.² 1916:
Atwae. This word is quite common in this district [Langholm].

2. †Atwa.Sc. a.1806 Fair Annie in Ballads ed. Child (1904) No.62 b, xviii.:
If my seven sons were seven grey ratts, . . . And I mysel a good grey cat, I would bite their back a-twa.Dmf. 1823 J. Kennedy Poems 33:
What tho' we're parted now atwa A wallie space.