Meaning

3 senses
  1. A road or path for driving cattle or sheep, on the commons or on private land.

  2. A drift, or horizontal passage in a mine.

  3. (US)An access road to the sea.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From drift + way.

From drift + way.

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Forms

plural: driftways
Singulardriftway
Pluraldriftways

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relateddroveway

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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