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n. (right of way English)
Usage examples of "rights of way".
There were so many different lines, each jealous of exclusive rights of way, that the traveler hardly got used to his particular car when he had to snatch up his baggage and hustle for the connecting train, which might be on the same track or at the same sooty depot, but was more likely to be a mile away.
Right in the middle of the other guys, there's a little place called Marktgraitz that belongs to Bamberg, so we're going to have to think about getting the rights of way renewed.
Clearly, its builders had known precisely where they wanted to go, and they had cut sunken rights of way through the very hearts of hills rather than curl around them or accept slopes whose steepness would have exhausted draft animals.
Once I started thinking about it, I realized that there are a bunch of old railway rights of way.