单词 | drove way |
释义 | > as lemmasdrove way drove way n. an unenclosed road or track formerly used for driving cattle or other livestock; = sense 2a. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > along which cattle are driven drovelOE drove way1235 driftway1611 drift1686 drove road1740 1235–52 in C. J. Elton Rentalia et Custumaria (1891) 44 Philippus Bal tenet vij acras et quoddam iter quod vocatur Drofwei. 1580 in A. H. Smith et al. Papers N. Bacon of Stiffkey (1983) II. 139 One acre 1 rode in East Feilde by the northe parte of the northe drove waie. 1664–5 Act 16 & 17 Chas. II c. 11 §22 The twoe Drove wayes in the said Fenns called the North drove and South drove. 1726 Laws of Sewers 181 Whereby Drove Ways, Bridges &c...shall be obstructed. 1881 All Year Round 14 May 153/2 We have known an instance of one [sc. a snake] disputing with a horseman the path on a high fen droveway; raising itself erect from the grass, swaying and hissing. 2018 Oxoniensia 83 203 Animals were kept closer to settlements than before, thus enclosures and droveways kept the animals away from buildings and funnelled stock traffic away from crops and hay meadows. < as lemmas |
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