droveway
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English
Etymology
Noun
droveway (plural droveways)
- A road or track along which livestock are (or historically were) regularly driven.
- Synonyms: drove, drove road, drovers' road, drovers' way; driftway, driveway (uncommon)
- Coordinate term: cowpath
- 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:
- 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: […]