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woodway

woodway noun: a road or path through the forest.

Noun

woodway (plural woodways)

  1. A road or path through the forest.
    • So they went through the summer night-tide by many a woodway dim, Till they came to a certain wood-lawn, and Sigmund lingered there,1877, William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
    • The line had not moved a bowshot when De Aquila's great horn blew for a halt, and soon young Fulke—our false Fulke's son—yes, the imp that lit the straw in Pevensey Castle—came thundering up a woodway.1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
  2. A path for pedestrians paved in wood; boardwalk.
    • I surmise that pond originally meant a deep water. So pontus (the old Roman for bridge) may be a shortcut expression for a woodway over a pond.2005, Reinhold Aman, Maledicta - Volume 1, Issue 2, page 192

Forms of woodway

pluralwoodways

Origin of woodway

From wood + way.

Questions about woodway

What does woodway mean?
Woodway means a road or path through the forest.
What part of speech is woodway?
Woodway is a noun.
What is the plural of woodway?
The plural of woodway is woodways.

Words near woodway in the dictionary

  1. woodwasp
  2. woodwasps
  3. woodwax
  4. woodwaxen
  5. woodwaxens
  6. woodway
  7. woodways
  8. woodwind
  9. woodwind instrument
  10. woodwind instruments
  11. woodwinder

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