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woodways

woodways is the plural of woodway.

Meaning of woodway

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
  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

Questions about woodways

What is woodways the plural of?
Woodways is the plural of woodway.

Words near woodways in the dictionary

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

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