straightway

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Noun

straightway (plural straightways)

1. A straight section of a racetrack.

Adverb

straightway (not comparable)

1. Directly.
2. At once; forthwith.
   • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 547:

     Now one day of the days, […] the Sultan cast his eyes upon her as she stood before him, and said to his Grand Wazir, "This be the very woman whereof I spake to thee yesterday, so do thou straightway bring her before me, that I may see what be her suit and fulfil her need."

   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:

     This made her angrier than before, and she blew her silver whistle twice. Straightway a great flock of wild crows came flying toward her, enough to darken the sky.

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