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manorways

manorways is the plural of manorway.

Meaning of manorway

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

Questions about manorways

What is manorways the plural of?
Manorways is the plural of manorway.

Words near manorways in the dictionary

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

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