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droveways

droveways is the plural of droveway.

Meaning of droveway

Noun

droveway (plural droveways)

  1. 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

Questions about droveways

What is droveways the plural of?
Droveways is the plural of droveway.

Words near droveways in the dictionary

  1. drovers' roads
  2. drovers' way
  3. droves
  4. drovest
  5. droveway
  6. droveways
  7. droving
  8. drow
  9. drown
  10. drown one's sorrows
  11. drown out

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