| 释义 |
ˈport-way Now local.
[f. port n.2 + way n.]
A road leading from town to town; a public highway: a Roman road.
Used by Holland in translating various L. expressions: see quots. In the Godstow Charters c 1285 applied to a road near Cassington, Oxon. The name survives in other localities, e.g. in the Vale of the White Horse.
c1285Godstow Reg. (transl. c 1450) 301 Of the whiche lond, v. acres (lien to-gedir) strecchen into the portwey [se extendunt in to porteweye]; And j. half acre, the whiche strecchith into porteweye [portweye] beside the lond of william Fitz Petir. 1600Holland Livy vii. xxx. 270 The whole multitude stand about the gates looking toward the high port-way [via] that leadeth from hence thither. 1610― Camden's Brit. 282 The bridges of Abbindon and Dorchester, whereby London portway [regia via] was turned from thence [from Wallingford]. Ibid. 508 The high portway or Romane Street [via militaris]. Ibid. 557 The portway or High paved street [via Romana lapidibus constrata] named Bath-gate [at Buxton]. |