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单词 driveway
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drivewayn.

Brit. /ˈdrʌɪvweɪ/, U.S. /ˈdraɪvˌweɪ/, Canadian English /ˈdraivˌwei/
Forms: also with hyphen, or as two words.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: drive v., way n.1
Etymology: < drive v. + way n.1
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a. A road or way suitable for the passage of vehicles or animals. In later use: spec. a private road or lane leading from the public highway to a house or other building; (also) an area on a person's property on which a car or other vehicle may be parked, and which gives access to the house or garage; = drive n. 12a.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles > leading to a house
private road1652
avenue1664
drive1780
carriage drive1800
carriage sweep1800
sweep1811
driveway1824
wheel-sweep1833
1824 Norfolk Chron. & Norwich Gaz. 1 May At the said Meeting will be Let by Auction, the Grass and Herbage of the Banks, Silth Pits, and Driveways, and the Fisheries of the Drains in the said Smeeth Fen.
1870 Congress. Globe 2 Feb. 966/3 I doubt as to the policy of allowing this railroad to go along exactly in the track of where we propose to have a public drive-way.
1895 H. P. Robinson Men Born Equal 16 A carriage..came down the driveway.
1935 M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer xvi. 146 Harold was in the drive-way beside the house, about to start his car.
2019 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 30 Sept. The driveway has parking space for one car.
b. Chiefly North American. A scenic highway; esp. (Canadian) an urban avenue or boulevard, typically landscaped and lined with trees.
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1886 Winona (Minnesota) Daily Republican 18 Dec. Nowhere in the entire Northwest is there a better natural site for a drive-way or boulevard than that extending from the two extremes of Winona around the lake and up the hill-side.
1909 Gow Ganda (Ont.) Tribune 1 May 1/1 The advisability of spending three hundred thousand dollars in building a driveway and boulevard along the Canadian side of the Niagara River.
1958 Sat. Night (Toronto) 27 Sept. 7/1 More trees, parks and driveways as handouts from the taxpayers of Canada.
2018 @murphydes1 28 May in twitter.com (accessed 27 Jan. 2020) Unbelievable day on the #CausewayCoast rated in the top 5 coastal driveways in the #World.
2. North American. A passageway by means of which hay, grain, etc., is taken into a barn. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > barn > parts of
mowstead1531
barn door?1544
driveway1834
barn-loft1837
barn chamber1838
picking-hole1847
1834 New Eng. Farmer 23 July 10/1 The carts enter in the second story; the floor or drive way is continued round by the wall for the whole of the circle, so that the cart passes round the whole distance, and when the hay is discharged, goes out at the same door at which it entered.
1868 Rep. Commissioner Agric. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 242 Where it is practicable, it is best to have the drive-way for drawing in hay, grain and corn fodder enter the gable end.
1949 Pacific Spectator Spring 226 The upper floor, right on a level with the driveway, had a big haymow on the left.
1992 R. G. Alvey Kentucky Bluegrass Country vi. 101 The basic transverse-crib barn..has a driveway running from gable end to gable end, with partitions (or ‘cribs’) of whatever sort running along both sides of the driveway.
3. North American. A course along which game is driven in hunting. Now historical.
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1875 J. H. Temple & G. Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. i. 46 They were wonderfully expert in killing game with arrows, and in capturing both larger and smaller sorts by means of drive-ways, and in rude traps and yank-ups.
1882 Ann. Rep. Superintendent Yellowstone National Park (U.S. Dept. Interior) 778 There is abundant evidence that the Sheep-eater Indians habitually made brush and timber driveways and arrow coverts to secure game.
1990 H. Palmer & T. Palmer Alberta: New Hist. i. 5 These [rock cairns] served as V-shaped driveways that funnelled the unsuspecting buffalo to the cliff's edge...The older men and boys..moved to frighten the animals and stampede them over the cliff.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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