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Definition of Trackways
1. trackway [n] - See also: trackway
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trackways
Literary usage of Trackways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Principles and Practice of Road-making: Comprising the by William Mitchell Gillespie (1872)
"ROADS WITH trackways. When whee.ed carriages are drawn by ... These two opposite
requirements are united only in Roads with trackways, on which two parallel ..."
2. A Manual of the Principles and Practice of Road-making: Comprising the by William Mitchell Gillespie (1854)
"ROADS WITH trackways. When wheeled carriages are drawn by horses, ... These two
opposite requirements are united only in Roads with trackways, ..."
3. A Manual of the Principles and Practice of Road-making: Comprising the by William Mitchell Gillespie (1871)
"These two opposite requirements are united only in Roads with trackways, ...
STONE trackways. The Egyptians seem to have first discovered the value of stone ..."
4. Highway Engineering as Presented at the Second International Road Congress by Arthur Horace Blanchard, Henry Bernardin Drowne (1911)
"Iron trackways have been constructed with very satisfactory results in different
provinces since 1894. In the Province of Hanover alone, on April 1st, 1910, ..."
5. A Text-book on Roads and Pavements by Frederick Putnam Spalding (1912)
"In some of the European cities, particularly in Italy, stone trackways are
sometimes employed ... These trackways are formed of smooth blocks of stone FIG. ..."
6. Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar by Thomas Rice Holmes (1907)
"It has been said that trackways were made (I) by digging two parallel ditches
and throwing up the earth so as to form a bank between them, ..."
7. The Art of Roadmaking, Treating of the Various Problems and Operations in by Harwood Frost (1910)
"CHAPTER XXI MISCELLANEOUS ROADS AND PAVEMENTS STONE trackways were used in ...
The steel trackways that have been constructed consist of two parallel lines ..."
8. The Art of Roadmaking: Treating of the Various Problems and Operations in by Harwood Frost (1910)
"The steel trackways that have been constructed consist of two parallel lines of
steel ... Tie-rods are used at intervals of about 10 feet. Steel trackways. ..."
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