causeway

noun

1. 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.

   “Throughout the parish are ancient causeways paved with irregular slabs of local marble, and in some places the outline of the fossils of small snails can be seen in the stone. The causeways were laid as hard paths for heavily laden pack-animals bringing in wool from outlying hamlets and farms.”

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)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 […]”

   “The Glasgow Town Council decided at their last meeting to causeway the following streets at the respective costs given […]”

   “There had been a previous partial allocation, but the final allocation was made in 1875; and the whole sums payable by the owners of the streets for paving and causewaying them, as resolved upon by the Commissioners, have been duly paid.”