plateway

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"The late Mr. Clement E. Stretton wrote that it was decided in 1785 to lay a plateway "from the dock at Loughborough to Nanpanton, a distance of three miles, but this system of plateway had to be abandoned, as the Road Commissioners would not allow a ledge to project upwards in their road.""

From plate + way.

plateways (plural)

tramroad

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