How to pronounce“causeway”in English
And I think the sheer scale of what we've been able to remove and the depth of which they've been stuck into the
Causeway has really, I suppose, surprised us all. But we've actually engaged the services of a local stonemason who is very familiar with
working with this kind of stone and he's literally gone at it a bit like a dentist, removing material from within the little joints in the rocks. So, he's
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Definitions of “causeway”
A road that is raised so as to be above water, marshland, and similar low-lying obstacles, which in some cases may flood periodically (e.g. due to tides). Originally causeways were much like dykes, generally pierced to let water through, whereas many modern causeways are more like bridges or viaducts.
“1836, Account of the Old Bridge at Stratford-le-Bow in Essex from Alfred Burges, Esq. addressed to Sir Henry Ellis https://archive.org/details/archaeologiaorm01londgoog . . .the passage over the water of the Luye at Stratford atte Bowe, anciently used to be in a certain place which is called the Old Forde, which is distant from the place where the bridges and causeway now are nearly one mile, at which passage many persons passing over it at divers times were drowned, and in great danger, and when after so much danger came to the knowledge of Lady Matilda, Queen of England […]”
To pave, to cobble.
“In thus limiting his judgment, I understand that he has not pronounced any opinion in regard to the formation and causewaying of streets […]”