washway

washway

English

Etymology

wash +‎ way

Noun

washway (plural washways)

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   • 1811, Richard Parkinson, ‎Board of Agriculture (Great Britain), General view of the agriculture of the County of Huntingdon (page 341)

     […] justifies a conclusion, that by the farther contraction of the descending waters over the washway, the navigation and drainage through the Wisbeach river, will be farther improved.

   • 1882, James Sandby Padley, The fens and floods of mid-Lincolnshire (page 14)

     […] these frontagers were obliged to leave a washway of half-a-mile wide on the west side of the river, so as not to impede the drainage of the country; […]

   • 1966, California Feeder's Day (page 65)

     The steers in this treatment had space for standing only in the washways, whereas the steers in all the other treatments had additional standing or lying space other than the washways.