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cess path

cess path noun: path running along the cess next to a railway line.

Noun

cess path (plural cess paths)

  1. Path running along the cess next to a railway line.
    • […] the truck was lifted and the crumped mass freed from wheels and springs and rails and laid on a blanket on the cess-path […]1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 202
    • So successful are the spray mixtures applied in early summer each year that along mainlines very little grows on the permanent way or cess path.1989, Oliver Gilbert, The Ecology of Urban Habitats, London: Chapman & Hall, published 2012, section 8.1

Forms of cess path

pluralcess paths

Questions about cess path

What does cess path mean?
Cess path means path running along the cess next to a railway line.
What part of speech is cess path?
Cess path is a noun.
What is the plural of cess path?
The plural of cess path is cess paths.

Words near cess path in the dictionary

  1. cespitosely
  2. cespitous
  3. cespitulose
  4. cesplumtantite
  5. cess
  6. cess path
  7. cess paths
  8. cess pool
  9. cess-pit
  10. cess-pits
  11. cessant

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