pannierway

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English

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Etymology

From pannier +‎ way.

Noun

pannierway (plural pannierways)

  1. A stone-paved path along which goods were transported in panniers.
    Hypernyms: pathway, trailway, trod
    • 2011, John Wright, Child From Home: Memories of a North Country Evacuee, page 34:
      The tracks are paved with sandstone slabs in parts, and are called trods or pannier ways, and these ancient tracks cross many miles of high wild moorland that lead to and from the old bridge.
    • 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 81:
      In many ways this process replicates the stone trods or pannierways which date from the mediaeval period and are a feature of many parts of the North York Moors.

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