Meanings
plural droveways
- 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 160Synonyms: 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
droveway. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/droveway
“droveway.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/droveway. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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