Manorway
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From manor + way.
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