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Webster 1913 Edition
Causey
{
Cause′way
(ka̤z′wā̍)
, Cau′sey
((ka̤′zy̆)
, } Noun.
[OE.
cauci
, cauchie
, OF. cauchie
, F. chaussée
, from LL. (via
) calciata
, fr calciare
to make a road, either fr. L. calx
lime, hence, to pave with limestone (cf. E. chalk
), or from L. calceus
shoe, from calx
heel, hence, to shoe, pave, or wear by treading.] A way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground.
But that broad
causeway
will direct your way. Dryden.
The other way Satan went down
The
The
causey
to Hell-gate. Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Causey
CAUSEY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
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Noun
causey (plural causeys)
- (obsolete) An embankment holding in water; a dam. [14th-18th c.]
- (now dialectal) A causeway across marshy ground, an area of sea etc.
- c. 1460, Merlin, vol. II:
- than com Soriondes with all his peple that was so grete, and sette ouer the cauchie so rudely as horse myght renne.
- 1841, Jacob Abbott, The Rollo Books:
- He said he would pay them a cent for every two loads of stones or gravel which they should wheel in to make the causey.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 177:
- I could see through the open doorway some fishermen in guernseys sitting on the grass listening, and a boat was drawn up on the shingle and others moored to the cauchie.
- c. 1460, Merlin, vol. II:
- (now dialectal) A paved path or highway; a street, or the part of a street paved with paving or cobbles as opposed to flagstones.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, X:
- Satan went down The Causey to **** Gate.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, X: