cartway

So narrow was the track that here and there tar-besmeared cars were lying — tangled, broken, and crushed — in the ruts of the cartway.

Through Russia 2003

The track to which he pointed led off the road at right angles, past the gable-end of the cottage, and thence (as it seemed to me) up into the moorland, where it was quickly lost in darkness, being but a rutted cartway overgrown with grass.

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

So narrow was the track that here and there tar-besmeared cars were lying -- tangled, broken, and crushed -- in the ruts of the cartway.

Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902

From the inn and its surroundings a winding track, a merely rough cartway, wound off and upward into the land; in the distance I saw the tower of a church.

Ravensdene Court 1899

And from this they emerged into a small circular space, where the cartway made a turn at right angles and disappeared behind thickets.

In the Year of Jubilee George Gissing 1880

What aforetime was a tree-bordered drive, now curved between dead stumps, a mere slushy cartway; the stone pillars, which had marked the entrance, damaged in the rending away of metal with a market value, drooped sideways, ready at a touch to bury themselves in slime.

In the Year of Jubilee George Gissing 1880

Before long, they came to an old broken gate, half open; it was the entrance to a narrow cartway, now unused, which descended windingly between high thick hedges.

In the Year of Jubilee George Gissing 1880

But a little red-haired playmate with whom I became intimate used to take me off with her into the fields, where, sitting, on the edge of a disused cartway fringed with pussy-clover, she poured into my ears the most remarkable narratives of acquaintances she had made with people who lived under the ground close by us, in my father's orchard.

A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) Lucy Larcom 1858

A walk, alley, or cartway, on the sides of the garden, is always better

Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Lewis Falley Allen 1845

The descent to the shore through these 'bottoms' is in most cases very abrupt, too much so for a cartway, or even a bridle-path; but people can pass up and down without difficulty, by the help of a few rude steps hewn here and there out of the rock.

Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837