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manorway

manorway noun: a roadway, typically a dead end, giving access from a manor or village to marshy common land, often near a river.

Noun

manorway (plural manorways)

  1. A roadway, typically a dead end, giving access from a manor or village to marshy common land, often near a river.
    • Its course, still widening, lies across the road which leads from the village to the church, where there must have been of old a ford or a bridge (for the level of the present road has been heightened), and thence along a ravine now partly filled up by a manorway leaving a deep ditch on each side.1873, Charles John Smith, Erith: Its Natural, Civil, and Ecclesiastical History, Virtue, Spalding, and Daldy (1873), page 19
    • Perry's labours were at the extremity of a long manor-way. This chace or lane ran a mile and a-half down lonesome marshes, pleasant enough in the summer months, but dull and dismal in the winter.1902, Essex Review, volume 11, page 93

Forms of manorway

pluralmanorways

Origin of manorway

From manor + way.

Questions about manorway

What does manorway mean?
Manorway means a roadway, typically a dead end, giving access from a manor or village to marshy common land, often near a river.
What part of speech is manorway?
Manorway is a noun.
What is the plural of manorway?
The plural of manorway is manorways.

Words near manorway in the dictionary

  1. manorializing
  2. manorially
  3. Manorina
  4. Manorowen
  5. manors
  6. manorway
  7. manorways
  8. manos
  9. manoscope
  10. manoscopes
  11. manoscopy

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