Definition of "leastways"

“My advice, or, leastways, I should say, my orders, is,” said the fattest man of the party, “that we 'mediately go home again.”

1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Looks after Oliver, and Proceeds with His Adventures”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 137

[…] so that I couldn't help telling her, sir, that in our country, leastways in Virginia (they say the Yankees are very pert), young people don't speak of their elders so.

1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, chapter XXXIV, in The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859

‘Cook-housekeeper jobs don’t grow on trees,’ went on the woman, ‘leastways not where you can keep a youngster with you.’

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 32

“I was lucky, just an arm (lost in combat), and the hope of a life, a normal man’s life, leastways”

2018 February 11, Colin Dexter, Russell Lewis, 01:20:14 from the start, in Endeavour(Cartouche), season 5, episode 2 (TV series), spoken by Gordon the usher(uncredited)