droveway
droveway noun: a road or track along which livestock are (or historically were) regularly driven.
Noun
droveway (plural droveways)
- A road or track along which livestock are (or historically were) regularly driven.
- In the first […], a series of droveways ran north from the coastal marshes, across lighter soils, as far as the edge of the claylands that were open pasture, while a further series of droveways ran from a series of upland commons across the gravel hills to the northern edge of the clayland...2015, Stephen Rippon, Chris Smart, Ben Pears, The Fields of Britannia: Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 160
- Synonyms:
- drove, drove road, drovers' road, drovers' way, driftway, driveway
Synonyms of droveway
Forms of droveway
| plural | droveways |
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Origin of droveway
From drove + way.
Questions about droveway
- What does droveway mean?
- Droveway means a road or track along which livestock are (or historically were) regularly driven.
- What part of speech is droveway?
- Droveway is a noun.
- What is the plural of droveway?
- The plural of droveway is droveways.
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