causey

American  

[kaw-zee] / ˈkɔ zi /

noun

plural

causeys

1. British Dialect. a causeway.

2. Archaic. an ancient Roman highway.

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causey British  

/ ˈkɔːzɪ /

noun

1. an archaic or dialect word for causeway

2. a cobbled street

3. a cobblestone

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Etymology

Origin of causey

1125–75; Middle English cauce < Anglo-French < Old North French caucie, variant of cauciee < Late Latin ( via ) calciāta (road) paved with limestone, equivalent to Latin calci- (stem of calx ) limestone + -āta, feminine of -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

The next thing I knew was that I lay on the causey, dizzy and sick.

From The MS. in a Red Box by Hamilton, John Arthur

They were riding along a broad dusty track which bordered a stone causey raised above the level of winter floods. 

From Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France by Weyman, Stanley John

A stinking urine foams In a white froth along the causey chinks.

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various

They were riding along a broad dusty track which bordered a stone causey raised above the level of winter floods; impulsively she turned to him.

From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.

Loud on the causey, saft on the sand, Round they rade by the tail of the land; Round and up by the Bour-Tree Den, Weary fa' the red-coat men!

From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis