cess path

plural cess paths

1. rail transportPath running along the cess next to a railway line.

   […] the truck was lifted and the crumped mass freed from wheels and springs and rails and laid on a blanket on the cess-path […]

   1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 202

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   So successful are the spray mixtures applied in early summer each year that along mainlines very little grows on the permanent way or cess path.

   1989, Oliver Gilbert, The Ecology of Urban Habitats, London: Chapman & Hall, published 2012, section 8.1