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ˈhorse-way
A road by which a horse may pass; a bridle-road; sometimes = cart-road.
985Charter of æthelred in Kemble Cod. Dipl. III. 219 To horsweᵹes heale. 1517R. Torkington Pilgr. (1884) 66 With owt the Citys ys an horse wey vnder neth a mownteyn. 1532–3Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 5 Any common high⁓way cartway horseway or fotewayes. 1605Shakes. Lear iv. i. 58 Glou. Know'st thou the way to Douer? Edg. Both style and gate; Horseway and foot-path. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. x, I therefore walked back by the horse-way, which was five miles round, though the footway was but two. 1875Poste Gaius iv. §3 A right of horse-way or carriage-way through his land. |