-ways

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• A suffix formed from way by the addition of the adverbial -s (see -wards). It is often used interchangeably with wise

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• suffix towards, in the direction towards.

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• noun structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired