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manorway en · NOUN

Etymology

From manor + way.

Meanings

1. A roadway, typically a dead end, giving access from a manor or village to marshy common land, often near a river.
   • My council have adopted the Private Street Works Act, 1892, and are about to make up as a private street a portion of an old manorway, which has never been dedicated to the public. 1903, The Surveyor and Municipal and County Engineer, volume 23, page 472:
   • Perry's labours were at the extremity of a long manor-way. This chace or lane ran a mile and a-half down lonesome marshes, pleasant enough in the summer months, but dull and dismal in the winter. 1902, Essex Review, volume 11, page 93:
   • Its course, still widening, lies across the road which leads from the village to the church, where there must have been of old a ford or a bridge (for the level of the present road has been heightened), and thence along a ravine now partly filled up by a manorway leaving a deep ditch on each side. 1873, Charles John Smith, Erith: Its Natural, Civil, and Ecclesiastical History, Virtue, Spalding, and Daldy (1873), page 19

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