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Raised track across water or marshland
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causeway
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A road that is raised, as to be above water, marshland etc.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As the road, at this point, was frequently flooded a raised causeway or footpath was built to give access. ▪ Each time we crossed the causeway over to the tiny island of Reine, we paused and photographed. ▪ Man, the causeway ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A causeway is a road or railway elevated by a bank, usually across a broad body of water or wetland. Causeway may also refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Middle English cauceweye "raised road" (mid-15c.), first element from Anglo-French cauce , Old North French cauciee (12c., Modern French chaussée ), from Vulgar Latin *via calciata "paved way," from Latin calcis , genitive of calx (2) "limestone," ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Causeway \Cause"way\ (k[add]z"w[asl]), Causey \Cau"sey\ ((k[add]"z[y^]), n. [OE. cauci, cauchie, OF. cauchie, F. chauss['e]e, from LL. (via) calciata, fr calciare to make a road, either fr. L. calx lime, hence, to pave with limestone (cf. E. chalk), ...
Usage examples of causeway.
To Bima the causeway people were not a last stand, but a place for a decisive stroke to end the bloodshed.
It occurs to me that I was perhaps the only person in Boca Grande inconvenienced by the collapse of the Progreso causeway.
Romans had run the causeway northwards here, straight through the Boghole milecastle.
The escort built a fire, roasted maize cobs over it and brewed Malawi tea, while Peter walked his guests in leisurely fashion along the causeway and went on with his lecture.
They had climbed up the Kanoni road past the archaeological museum and the old fort on its island across a causeway, along the esplanade and around the tip of the peninsula to Arseniou, then along the north shore past the containership fleet landing of the old port, past the late-sixteenth-century Venetian new fort toward the new fleet landing and the Hippodrome.
She is a large and powerful horse and, discomforting as my life is, I did not wish to be crushed by her hooves and thus lose it altogether on this lonely Fenland causeway.
If he tried to dash across a causeway or head north to the far side of Haulover Park and cross, we were there to pick him up.
Going over the causeway at Haulover Cut, Foley threw his brand-new Marlins baseball cap out the window.
Dekhron and leading to the bridge reminded Alucius of Hieron, because the causeway leading to the bridge had been built long before the trade section of the town beside the river.
Dekhron reminded Alucius of Hieron, because the causeway clearly predated much of the trade section close to the river, and ramps and inclined roads had been built later to connect to the eternastone surface.
The high road which they had been traveling continued southward beyond the southern bank of the river, a raised causeway which effectively split Hieron in two.
If he loitered, the Kirghiz might venture out again, find no one opposing them, and reach the bend of the trail in time to pick him off the causeway.
The lammergeier flies to a village in the lowlands, near the end of the Great Causeway, where the villagers unpack the messenger, and he continues on foot or by fronial from there.
The harbour of Ancona, although considered one of the great works of Trajan, would be very unsafe if it were not for a causeway which has cost a great deal of money, and which makes it some what better.
It was a wild, forsaken road, now winding through dreary pine barrens, where the wind whispered mournfully, and now over log causeways, through long cypress swamps, the doleful trees rising out of the slimy, spongy ground, hung with long wreaths of funeral black moss, while ever and anon the loathsome form of the mocassin snake might be seen sliding among broken stumps and shattered branches that lay here and there, rotting in the water.