raceway
Chiefly British. a passage or channel for water, as a millrace.
a racetrack on which harness races are held.
Electricity. a channel for protecting and holding electrical wires and cables, especially a metal rectangular tube used for such purposes.
Machinery. race1 (def. 9).
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How to use raceway in a sentence
One flash showed them the canoe dancing down the raceway of a lower rapid, and at the next it had disappeared.
Stranded in Arcady | Francis LyndeDr. Quink forced himself to relax, to ignore the ins and outs of the commuters' raceway.
You Don't Make Wine Like the Greeks Did | David E. FisherSee the living stream pour into America through the raceway of Ellis Island.
Aliens or Americans? | Howard B. GroseWent in swimming today twise, once down to the raceway and once up to the gravel.
The Real Diary of a Real Boy | Henry A. ShuteIt reached the point where the curve of the opposite bank draws in to form the narrow raceway of the rapids.
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent | Harold Bell Wright
British Dictionary definitions for raceway
/ (ˈreɪsˌweɪ) /
another word for race 1 (def. 5)
a racetrack, esp one for banger racing
another word (esp US) for race 1 (def. 6)
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