单词 | cart-way |
释义 | cart-wayn. 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. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles > for carts cart-way1362 wain-way1579 cart-gate1594 wain-gate1596 cart-road1607 wagon-road1748 wagon-way1764 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iii. 127 Heo is..As Comuyn as þe Cart-wei to knaues and to alle. 1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII v Any common high way, cartway, horseway, or foteway. 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 162 Albeit the wife were as common as the Cart-waie. 1673 W. F. News from Channel sig. A2v There is a Cartway cut by Art down to the Sea. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Copse Where the Woods are large, it is best to have a Cart-way along the Middle of them. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (1793) 442 Every cartway leading to any market-town must be made twenty feet wide at the least. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 242 Cross-roads, mere cart-ways, leading to the innumerable little farms. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1362 |
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