Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A way or road by which a horse may pass. Compare footway.

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Examples

  • Then a broad, raw-looking, new-made road intruded itself up the little glen, instead of the old horseway, so seldom used that it was almost entirely covered with grass.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • I therefore walked back by the horseway, which was five miles round, though the footway was but two; and when I had got about half-way home, I perceived the procession marching slowly forward toward the church -- my son, my wife, and the two little ones exalted on one horse, and my two daughters upon the other.

    The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907

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