English

Noun

causeway ‎(plural causeways)

1. A road that is raised, as to be above water, marshland etc.

Derived terms

• causewayed
• causewaying

Translations

Verb

causeway ‎(third-person singular simple present causeways, present participle causewaying, simple past and past participle causewayed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To pave, to cobble.
   • 1873, The Scottish Jurist, volume 45, Alexander Dennistoun and Others, Pursuers, v. John Thomson, Defender:

     In thus limiting his judgment, I understand that he has not pronounced any opinion in regard to the formation and causewaying of streets […]

   • 1878 December 13, The British Architect: A Journal of Architecture and the Accessory Arts, volume 10, number 24, page 235:

     The Glasgow Town Council decided at their last meeting to causeway the following streets at the respective costs given […]

   • 1879, “The Kinning Park proprietors v. the police commissioners of Kinning Park.”, in The Journal of Jurisprudence, volume 23, page 556:

     There had been a previous partial allocation, but the final allocation was made in 1875; and the whole sums payable by the owners of the streets for paving and causewaying them, as resolved upon by the Commissioners, have been duly paid.