causey

• cauchie

From Anglo-Norman caucie, chaucee et al., from Late Latin calceāta. In Guernsey use after Guernsey Norman cauchie.

causey (plural causeys)

1. (obsolete) An embankment holding in water; a dam.
2. (now dialectal) A causeway across marshy ground, an area of sea etc.
   • c. 1460, Merlin, volume II:

     than com Soriondes with all his peple that was so grete, and sette ouer the cauchie so rudely as horse myght renne.

   • 1841, Jacob Abbott, The Rollo Books:

     He said he would pay them a cent for every two loads of stones or gravel which they should wheel in to make the causey.

   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 177:

     I could see through the open doorway some fishermen in guernseys sitting on the grass listening, and a boat was drawn up on the shingle and others moored to the cauchie.

3. (now dialectal) A paved path or highway; a street, or the part of a street paved with paving or cobbles as opposed to flagstones.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:

     Satan went down The Causey to Hell Gate.

• Cayuse, sauce-y, saucey, cayuse, Ayscue