单词 | town way |
释义 | > as lemmastown way town way n. †(a) a road on a manor or estate; a lane, a byroad (obsolete); (b) a road or way leading to or from a town (c) U.S. a road laid out by a town (now historical). ΚΠ eOE Bounds (Sawyer 558) (transcript of lost MS) in S. E. Kelly Charters of Abingdon Abbey, Pt. 1 (2001) 186 Þonon on gerihta þær tun wegas ut sceotaþ, þonon on gerihta to þære haran apoldre, of þære haran apoldre þurh þone tun to þam ruwan crundle. OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 85 Publica uia, ealles hereweg. Priuata, tuunweg. lOE Bounds (Sawyer 511) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 495 Of hatan hamman. On tun weg. Of tun wege. On stapol wege. 1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries iv. f. 66 Most couragiously made hedde vpon the Enemie, drawyng towardes the Toune waie [Fr. le chemin de la ville]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. i. 6 Euans. Which way haue you look'd..? Sim... Euery way but the Towne-way. 1732 in E. R. Hodgman Hist. Town Westford, Mass. (1883) ii. 34 That William Read should repair the Country road from Groton line to the town way that goes from Capt. Prescott's to the meeting house. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. xiv. 229 They went out to the sluice-house: though by the town way to the marshes, which I had avoided. 2004 B. Donahue Great Meadow 278 Getting a way ‘laid out’ often meant having an existing way surveyed and accepted as a town way. < as lemmas |
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