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trackway|ˈtrækweɪ|
[f. track n. + way.]
1. A path beaten by the feet of passers, a track; also, an ancient British roadway, a ridgeway.
1818Kirby & Sp. Entomol. II. 98 Gould, speaking of his jet-ant (F[ormica] fuliginosa), says that they make several main track-ways, (streets he calls them,) with smaller paths striking off from them, extending sometimes to the distance of forty feet from their nest. 1826W. A. Miles Deverel Barrow 8 The line of hill, south of Maiden-Castle, near Dorchester, where the British trackway runs for many miles. 1848S. Rowe Peramb. Dartmoor 45 Trackways, under which designation those roads, or causeways, which cross the moor in various directions are generally known. 1891T. Hardy Tess xi, They were no longer on hard road, but in a mere trackway.
2. a. A tramway. b. A railway (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895).
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Track-way, a tram-road.
3. [f. track-.] A towing-path.
1873Act 36 & 37 Vict. c. 34 Preamble, Any towing path and trackway on the bank of any navigable river. |