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Definition of Causeways
1. causeway [v] - See also: causeway
Lexicographical Neighbors of Causeways
Literary usage of Causeways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1892)
"The city of Mexico stood in a salt lake, and was approached by three causeways
of solid masonry, each, as the Spanish soldiers said, two lances in breadth, ..."
2. The Law Relating to Highways: Comprising the State 5 & 6 Will. IV. Cap. 50 by John Tidd Pratt (1835)
"... for the guiding of travellers in the best and safest track through the floods;
and also to secure horse causeways and foot causeways, by posts, ..."
3. A Digest of Cases Connected with the Law of the Farm: Including the by Henry Hall Dixon (1863)
"50), which requires the parish surveyor to secure horse and foot- causeways from
being passed over by carriages, applies only to such as are by the side of ..."
4. History of Corn Milling by Richard Bennett, John Elton (1899)
"technicalities are necessarily omitted, only compara- WATERMILL. tively little
is to be said of the progress of the ] causeways, watermill to its stage of ..."
5. An Elementary Course of Civil Engineering by Joseph Mathieu Sganzin (1828)
"Cuts—causeways and Ditches. Roads should be considered with respect to their ...
Perfect levels are to be avoided, particularly for stone causeways; ..."
6. An Elementary Course of Civil Engineering by Joseph Mathieu Sganzin (1837)
"... in general—Paved causeways—Gravelled causeways. Roads are generally divided
into four classes in the United States, corresponding with their importance. ..."
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