droveway

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droveway

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From drove + way.

noun droveways

  1. A road or track along which livestock are (or historically were) regularly driven. In the first […], a series of droveways ran north from the coastal marshes, across lighter soils, as far as the edge of the claylands that were open pasture, while a further series of droveways ran from a series of upland commons across the gravel hills to the northern edge of the clayland pastures:

    Similar: drove, drove road, drovers' road, drovers' way, driftway, driveway

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Españolcabañera, cañada, vereda
Françaisdraille, carraire
DeutschTriebweg, Triftweg, Treibweg
Italianotratturo

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@misc{droveway_2026,
  title = {droveway},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/droveway},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}