There was also a small window, wherethrough a prisoner might conceivably escape.
(obsolete) By means of which; whereby.
1874, Ernest Myers (transl.), The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, Olympian Ode V, page 16.
[…] the river Oanis, and the lake of his native land, and the sacred channels wherethrough doth Hipparis give water to the people, […]