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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary

needways

"by necessity," c.1300, a northern and Scottish word, marked as obsolete in OED; from need (n.) + way (n.), with adverbial genitive.

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needways

adv. (context Now chiefly UK dialectal English) By or because of necessity; needwise.