driftway
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
driftway (plural driftways)
- A road or path for driving cattle or sheep, on the commons or on private land.
- 1611, A decree concerning Holland Fen […] :
- The said commoners […] to leave a driftway for the cattle and beasts of the said Edward Dymocke.
- (mining) A drift, or horizontal passage in a mine.
- (US, Rhode Island) An access road to the sea.
Related terms edit
- (droveway): drift of the forest
Translations edit
horizontal passage in a mine
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References edit
- “driftway”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.