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cart-way|ˈkɑːtweɪ|
A way along which a cart can be driven; sometimes = highway, as in the phrase ‘common as the cart-way’; but now usually a rough road on a farm or in a wood, passable by a heavy cart, but not by a carriage or other spring-vehicle.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. iii. 127 Heo is..As Comuyn as þe Cart-wei to knaues and to alle. 1532–3Act 24 Hen. VIII, v, Any common high way, cartway, horseway, or foteway. 1590H. Swinburn Testaments 162 Albeit the wife were as common as the Cart-waie. 1673in Ansted Channel Isl. i. iv. (1862) 78 There is a cartway cut by art down to the sea. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Copse, Where the Woods are large, it is best to have a Cart-way along the Middle of them. 1768Blackstone Comm. (1793) 442 Every cartway leading to any market-town must be made twenty feet wide at the least. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 46 Cross-roads, mere cart-ways, leading to the little farms. |