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).
Origin of raceway
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How to use raceway in a sentence
Wooden moulding: This is simply moulding, providing two raceways for the insulated wires to run in, and covered with a capping.
Electricity for the farm | Frederick Irving AndersonFarms were lakes, roads were raceways through which raced the swollen streams.
The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado | Logan Marshall
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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