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pannierway en · NOUN

Etymology

From pannier + way.

Meanings

1. A stone-paved path along which goods were transported in panniers.
   • In many ways this process replicates the stone trods or pannierways which date from the mediaeval period and are a feature of many parts of the North York Moors. 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 81:
   • The tracks are paved with sandstone slabs in parts, and are called trods or pannier ways, and these ancient tracks cross many miles of high wild moorland that lead to and from the old bridge. 2011, John Wright, Child From Home: Memories of a North Country Evacuee, page 34:

Forms

Hypernyms

trod · pathway · trailway

Relateds

towpath