CAUSEWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does causeway mean? 

• CAUSEWAY (noun)
  The noun CAUSEWAY has 1 sense:

1. a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand

  Familiarity information: CAUSEWAY used as a noun is very rare.

• CAUSEWAY (verb)
  The verb CAUSEWAY has 2 senses:

1. provide with a causeway

2. pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles

  Familiarity information: CAUSEWAY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAUSEWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A road that is raised above water or marshland or sand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("causeway" is a kind of...):

road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)

Derivation:

causeway (pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles)

• CAUSEWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with a causeway

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

A causewayed swamp

Hypernyms (to "causeway" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "causeway" is one way to...):

pave (cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

causeway (a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand)

 Context examples 

“The messenger of the king. Clear the causeway for the king's own man.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Man and horse were down; they had slipped on the sheet of ice which glazed the causeway.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Sometimes the rattle of the stones told of a paved causeway, and at others our smooth, silent course suggested asphalt; but, save by this variation in sound, there was nothing at all which could in the remotest way help me to form a guess as to where we were.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Slimy gaps and causeways, winding among old wooden piles, with a sickly substance clinging to the latter, like green hair, and the rags of last year's handbills offering rewards for drowned men fluttering above high-water mark, led down through the ooze and slush to the ebb-tide.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I felt it would be degrading to faint with hunger on the causeway of a hamlet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

However, I said No, and I added, You don't seem to be either, though you say you are,—for she was walking much too near the brink of a sort of old jetty or wooden causeway we had strolled upon, and I was afraid of her falling over.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As they passed over the drawbridge, Alleyne marked the gleam of arms in the embrasures to right and left, and they had scarce set foot upon the causeway ere a hoarse blare burst from a bugle, and, with screech of hinge and clank of chain, the ponderous bridge swung up into the air, drawn by unseen hands.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The din was on the causeway: a horse was coming; the windings of the lane yet hid it, but it approached.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Did I break through one of your rings, that you spread that damned ice on the causeway?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When I came to the stile, I stopped a minute, looked round and listened, with an idea that a horse's hoofs might ring on the causeway again, and that a rider in a cloak, and a Gytrash-like Newfoundland dog, might be again apparent: I saw only the hedge and a pollard willow before me, rising up still and straight to meet the moonbeams; I heard only the faintest waft of wind roaming fitful among the trees round Thornfield, a mile distant; and when I glanced down in the direction of the murmur, my eye, traversing the hall-front, caught a light kindling in a window: it reminded me that I was late, and I hurried on.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)