Barway
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A passage into a field or yard between a fence or wall, closed by bars that can be lifted out of the posts.
"Through the very middle of the tangle ran the naked trunk of a fallen chestnut, showing just above the barbed vines. As the pack scrambled through the barway at the foot of the hill, the little fox ran along the log, and with all his last remaining strength sprang far out across the interlaced tangle of vine and thorn, where the smooth needles under a little white pine made a tiny island in the thicket."
- 1 A hamlet in Soham parish, East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5475).
Example
More examples"Through the very middle of the tangle ran the naked trunk of a fallen chestnut, showing just above the barbed vines. As the pack scrambled through the barway at the foot of the hill, the little fox ran along the log, and with all his last remaining strength sprang far out across the interlaced tangle of vine and thorn, where the smooth needles under a little white pine made a tiny island in the thicket."
Etymology
From bar + way.
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