droveway

D2R1O1V4E1W4A1Y4

noun

A road or track along which livestock are (or historically were) regularly driven.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

noundroveway (plural droveways)

plural droveways

  1. A road or track along which livestock are (or historically were) regularly driven.
    1 more example

    In the first […], a series of droveways ran north from the coastal marshes, across lighter soils, as far as the edge of the claylands that were open pasture, while a further series of droveways ran from a series of upland commons across the gravel hills to the northern edge of the clayland pastures: […]

    2015, Stephen Rippon, Chris Smart, Ben Pears, The Fields of Britannia: Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 160

    Synonyms: drove, drove road, drovers' road, drovers' way, driftway, driveway

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA road or track along which livestock are (or historically were) regularly driven.

Origin

Translations

Catalan carrerada, cabanera
  • carreradaTranslations
  • cabaneraTranslations
French draille, carraire
  • drailleTranslations
  • carraireTranslations
German Triebweg, Triftweg
  • TriebwegTranslations
  • TriftwegTranslations
  • TreibwegTranslations
Italian tratturo
  • tratturoTranslations
Polish droga pasterska
  • droga pasterskaTranslations
Spanish cabañera, cañada
  • cabañeraTranslations
  • cañadaTranslations
  • veredaTranslations
Swedish fägata
  • fägataTranslations
Cite this entry
APA

droveway. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/droveway

MLA

“droveway.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/droveway. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “droveway,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/droveway.

Source: droveway on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.