causey
See also: Causey
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman caucie, chaucee et al., from Late Latin calceāta. In Guernsey use after Guernsey Norman cauchie.
Noun
causey (plural causeys)
- (obsolete) An embankment holding in water; a dam. [14th-18th c.]
- (now dialectal) A causeway across marshy ground, an area of sea etc.
- c. 1460, Merlin, vol. 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 2007, p. 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.
- c. 1460, Merlin, vol. II:
- (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, Paradise Lost, X:
- Satan went down The Causey to Hell Gate.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, X:
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