causeway

UK: /ˈkɔːzweɪ/ US: /ˈkɔzˌweɪ/ ,(kôz′wā′)

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cause•way /ˈkɔzˌweɪ/   n. [countable]

1. Civil Engineering a raised road, as over a body of water.

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cause•way  (kôz′wā′), n. 

1. Civil Engineering a raised road or path, as across low or wet ground.
2. Civil Engineering a highway or paved way.

v.t. 

3. Civil Engineering to pave (a road or street) with cobblestones or pebbles.
4. Civil Engineering to provide with a causeway.

• 1400–50; late Middle English; see causey, way

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causeway / ˈkɔːzˌweɪ/ noun

1. a raised path or road crossing water, marshland, sand, etc
2. a paved footpath

Etymology: 15th Century cauciwey (from cauci + way); cauci paved road, from Medieval Latin (via) calciāta, calciātus paved with limestone, from Latin calx limestone