Woodway

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,

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.

Tiphaine was silent when he had ended, watching the winding woodways of the forest.

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.