droveway en · NOUN
Etymology
From drove + way.
Meanings
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A road or track along which livestock are (or historically were) regularly driven.
In the first […], a series of droveways ran north from the coastal marshes, across lighter soils, as far as the edge of the claylands that were open pasture, while a further series of droveways ran from a series of upland commons across the gravel hills to the northern edge of the clayland pastures: […]
2015, Stephen Rippon, Chris Smart, Ben Pears, The Fields of Britannia: Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 160:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| droveways | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Synonyms
drovers' way · drove · drove road · drovers' road · driveway · driftway
Translations (13)
es vereda (Translations) · it tratturo (Translations) · es cañada (Translations) · es cabañera (Translations) · fr carraire (Translations) · de Triebweg (Translations) · de Triftweg (Translations) · de Treibweg (Translations) · fr draille (Translations) · sv fägata (Translations) · ca carrerada (Translations) · ca cabanera (Translations) · pl droga pasterska (Translations)