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OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 85 Tramites, wæterweg.

lOE Bounds (Sawyer 417) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 379 Andlang burnan, on ðone æwylm, of þam ewylme, andlang weterweges, up to strete.

a1170 ( Bounds (Sawyer 622) in M. Gelling Place-names Berks. (1976) III. 666 Andglang burnan on weter weg [a1225 wæterweg], of þam weterwege on weterhammas.

1970 H. Orton & M. V. Barry Surv. Eng. Dial. II. ii. 346 Sometimes there is no bridge (over a rivulet). What do you call that shallow place where you can walk across?.. [Monmouthshire] Water-way.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 131 (MED) Whan kyng Edwyn was i-slawe, and þinges were destourbed, Paulynus wente þennes by water wey [L. navigio] in to Kent.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. ii. v. 343 It [sc. Suceu] hath one gate to the Land, the other are water-wayes.

a1700 Surv. River Avon (single sheet) Cutting a new Water-way, from the Mill Pond, to one hundred Yards below the Bridge, which will be 400 Yards.

1785 C. Colles Proposals for Speedy Settlem. of Waste & Unappropriated Lands 13 Of late years the policy of that Island [sc. Britain] has been to promote Inland Navigation, and..it is intersected in all manner of directions by these valuable water-ways.

1858 C. Kingsley in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 324/1 Dearer than wild cataracts or Alpine glens are the still hidden streams which Bewick has immortalized in his vignettes... Pleasant are those hidden waterways.

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads ix. 74 The lack of railway and inn accommodation and the length of water-way rendered a cabin necessary.

1904 W. M. Ramsay Lett. to Seven Churches iv. 48 When a waterway is needed, as at Glasgow, we transform a little stream into a navigable river.

1915 A. Hurd in Daily Tel. 24 Aug. 8/7 The defence of this particular waterway [sc. the Gulf of Riga] was entrusted to a number of older ships.

1951 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IV. 37/2 The narrow boat..is possibly the commonest craft on inland waterways in England.

1997 J. Cole & F. Cole Geogr. of European Union (ed. 2) 140 Most oil refineries are in coastal locations, although some are situated inland, receiving crude oil either by waterway..or by pipeline.

2011 A. T. H. Tan Security Strategies in Asia-Pacific iv. 124 The United States..has insisted that the Straits of Malacca is an international waterway.

1642 A. Burrell Briefe Relation 13 To make two Brick Sluces at the outfall of the two Indikes, that each of them may have sixteene foot waterway, with a paire of doores to keepe out the Sea floods.

1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 75 More free Water-way is left for the Stream..than the whole Breadth of the River at the Horse-Ferry.

1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 16 Total Water-way 755 Feet 5 Inches.

1791 R. Mylne 2nd Rep. Navigation Thames 8 The Water-way..is much contracted by the Bank..having grown forward, beyond the opening of the Buttment Arch.

1803 T. Telford in J. Plymley Gen. View Agric. Shropshire xv. 301 By this towing-path being hollow below, there is a water-way in the tunnel, of ten feet, instead of seven feet.

1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 322/1 The Canal Company..demanded..an arch 31 feet wide, 24 for water-way, and 7 for towing path.

1896 W. H. Wheeler Hist. Fens S. Lincs. (ed. 2) xiii. 373 The East and West Fens discharge at Hobhole, which has four openings, each with one pair of doors, having a waterway of 60ft.

1902 Times 26 Nov. 16/5 The Thames Conservancy..have made demands in regard to waterway and headway.

1997 Indian Jrnl. Power & River Valley Developm. Mar. 42/2 A waterway of 60 m for the barrage has been provided in the form of 4 bays.

1759 Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 496 The breadth of the water-way between the obstacles being given.

1884 J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan 106 The waterway was considerably reduced in breadth by a large well-cultivated island.

1894 Law Times Rep. 71 102/2 The breadth of available waterway depends upon the draught of the vessels navigating it.

1906 Railway News 7 July 1/2 The harbour at Port Sudan has a breadth of waterway of about 400 ft.

1947 Federal Register 9 Sept. 5029/2 Large vessels or tows must not overtake and attempt to pass other large vessels or tows in the waterway.

2006 Maritime Econ. & Logistics 8 270 Ships in port may be berthed at a pier, at anchorage in the harbor or moving at slow speeds through the harbor's waterway.

1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard i. ii. 31 Between the sundown and the sea Love watched one hour of love with me; Then down the all-golden water-ways His feet flew after yesterday's.

1431–40 in J. L. Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bishop's Stortford (1882) 16 Pro j waterwey Johannis Busch..oneratæ ut supra, ijd. per annum.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 518 Water wey, meatus.

1562 in W. Holloway Hist. Romney Marsh (1849) v. 141 (modernized text) A creek or waterway swawed or dried up.

1658 G. Atwell Faithfull Surveyour xxvi. 88 If you are to bring it [sc. the trench] over some ditch or brook, where the water is lower then your water-way; then must you make a bridg over it.

1783 De Lille tr. R. L. Gerardin Ess. Landscape vii. 79 You need only dig a winding perpendicular ditch, conducting into it such water ways as may lie convenient for your purpose.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 325 If the water is to be carried away by a tunnel, the water-way is arched over and the space above levelled in with earth.

1878 D. T. Ansted Water & Water Supply 161 The alluvial bed is wide, but the channel or water-way, except after heavy rain, is small.

1959 Amer. Biol. Teacher 21 93/2 Good soil conservation practices such as..diversion terraces, grass waterways and proper land utilization.

1965 Soil Erosion by Water (Food & Agriculture Organization United Nations) vii. 169 Plant the badly eroded adjoining areas to a sod crop or forest trees to reduce the runoff draining into the waterway.

2007 J. K. Casper Agriculture viii. 147 Some terraces are designed to serve as a channel in order to slow runoff and carry it to a designated outlet, such as a grassed waterway.

1612 Survey in Mariner's Mirror (1990) 76 34 New waterways and spirkett wales to be put in.

1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services 149 Water way is that small piece or ledge of timber which lieth on the ship's deck..to keep the water from running down there.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 158 Her water-ways were open and decayed.

1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor Water ways, is that Strake of Plank on the Flat of each Deck respectively next the Ship's Side, for turning the Water out of the Seams.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xv. 39 Everything has been moved in the hold, from stem to stern, and from the water-ways to the keelson.

1884 Law Times 10 May 26/2 A tug towed at her for an hour and a half before she was got off, during that time her decks and waterways were much strained.

1943 Stage Building & Ship Carpentry (Pennsylvania Dept. Public Instr.) v. 175 The difference in thickness forms a waterway that leads down to the scupper.

2012 A. Lemmers tr. A. J. Hoving Nicolaes Witsen & Shipbuilding ii. 85/1 The waterway was let into the deck beams to level it with the other deck planks.

1729 S. Switzer Introd. Gen. Syst. Hydrostaticks & Hydraulicks II. xxix. 337 The Forcing-barrel..is bigger in its Bore at 7, 8 than in any other part, to allow sufficient Water-way.

1744 J. T. Desaguliers Course Exper. Philos. II. 524 His three Valves (whose Water-way taken together was 48 Inches).

1802 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Mar. 164 The sudden stoppage of the descent of the column AB, at the instant when the two plugs were both in the water way, might jar and shake the apparatus.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 276 This piston has every advantage of strength, tightness, and large water-way.

1961 Fowler's Mech. Engineer's Pocket Bk. (ed. 63) 389 The delivery valves..should afford a waterway in area equal to the plunger.

2002 R. D. Treloar Plumbing: Heating & Gas Installations (ed. 2) iii. 146 The zone valve simply opens and closes the waterway and is fitted in a straight run of pipe.