streamway

American  

[streem-wey] / ˈstrimˌweɪ /

noun

1. the bed of a stream.

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Etymology

Origin of streamway

First recorded in 1815–25; stream + way ¹

Example Sentences

Doubtless, I thought to myself, that streamway made a road to the plain above, and in some past battle, the fighting around it was very fierce and the slaughter great.

From Project Gutenberg

Dark and shaded and ferny and mossy was this streamway; and everywhere were tracks of game, from the giant spread of a grizzly bear to the tiny, birdlike imprints of a squirrel.

From Project Gutenberg