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prettygoodword) wrote2017-12-18 07:55 am
prettygoodword) wrote2017-12-18 07:55 am
holloway
holloway - n., (UK) a sunken lane, an old road or track that is significantly lower than the land on either side.
"Old" being operative here -- a recent roadcut doesn't count. Mostly dialect, but less so than bostel, grundle, or shute. Most of them are ancient cart tracks, and so too narrow for much modern traffic, but they're also too deep to fill in and farm, and so they persist. From hollow + way, and indeed it's sometimes written as the two words separate.
---L.
"Old" being operative here -- a recent roadcut doesn't count. Mostly dialect, but less so than bostel, grundle, or shute. Most of them are ancient cart tracks, and so too narrow for much modern traffic, but they're also too deep to fill in and farm, and so they persist. From hollow + way, and indeed it's sometimes written as the two words separate.
---L.