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ˈcross-way, n.
[cross- 4, cross a. 1 b.]
1. A way or road crossing another, or leading across from one main road to another; a by-way.
a1490Botoner Itin. (1778) 176 At the crosse yn Baldwyne strete been iiii crosse wayes metyng. a1533Ld. Berners Huon lxxxi. 247 We came too a crosse way. 1625–8tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. ii. (1688) 241 The Paths and Cross-ways whereof are scarce known to the Dwellers thereabouts. 1708Motteux Rabelais v. xxvi. (1737) 114 Highways, Crossways, and Byways. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 46 The little greens formed by the meeting of these cross-ways.
fig.1628Gaule Pract. Th. To Rdr. A x, If thou stop, and stumble at the Crosse-wayes of Mysterie. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God I. x. 264 Into a many Deviations, and Cross-ways to sin.
†b. allusively. The way of ‘crosses’ or afflictions. Obs. [cross- 3.]
c1450tr. T. à Kempis' Imit. ii. xii. 57 Hov sekist þou a noþer way þan þe kynges hye way, þe crosse wey? All cristys lif was a crosse & a martirdom.
2. The place where roads cross; = cross-road 2.
15..Knt. of Curtesy 386 And burie my body in the crosse waie. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 383 Damned spirits..That in crosse-waies and flouds haue buriall. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis i. i. 4 On the crosse-way issued forth five theeves. 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) I. 37 His imagination suggested those cross-ways that were wont to perplex knights-errant in their choice. 1865Kingsley Herew. xix. 235 He went past the crossways.
attrib.1640H. Mill Nights Search 79 For this cause [suicide] a Crosse-way grave..Is made for her. |