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单词 horse-way
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horse-wayn.

Forms: see horse n. and way n.1 and int.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: horse n., way n.1
Etymology: < horse n. + way n.1In earliest use as a boundary marker in Anglo-Saxon charter bounds.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhorse-way.
A road by which a horse may pass; a bridle-road; sometimes = cart-road.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > for horses or for riding
horse-way985
ridingc1175
ridewaya1500
warple1565
bridleway1667
stirrup-way1736
horse-road1740
bridle road1745
horse-path1755
bridle path1779
ride1789
bridle track1794
horse-track1836
bridle traila1858
spur road1883
horse-ride1903
985 Charter of Æthelred in Kemble Cod. Dipl. III. 219 To horsweges heale.
1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 66 With owt the Citys ys an horse wey vnder neth a mownteyn.
1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 5 Any common high~way cartway horseway or fotewayes.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xv. 54 Glost. Knowst thou the way to Douer? Edg. Both stile and gate, horse-way, and foot-path. View more context for this quotation
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. x. 96 I therefore walked back by the horse-way, which was five miles round, tho' the foot-way was but two.
1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iv. §3 A right of horse-way or carriage-way through his land.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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