A path or track cut through a wood or forest. Obsolete.
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释义 | society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > cut through a wood or rock (7) trenchc1405 A path or track cut through a wood or forest. Obsolete. holleway?a1500 hollow way, an excavated lane. path1548 Chiefly English regional (northern) and Scottish. In later use usually in form peth. A stretch of road in a hollow or deep cutting. cut1730 A passage or channel. A passage cut as a roadway through a rock, wood, dense part of a city, etc.; a railway cutting. hollow-way1765 a way, road, or path, through a defile or cutting; also extended, as in quot. 1882. score1790 local. ‘A vertical indentation in a hill; a gangway down a cliff; a cutting through a ridge of hills’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.); spec. in East Anglia, a… shute1879 (See chute, n.1 5.) |
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