thoroughpass

plural thoroughpasses

1. rareA connected passage; conduit or channel.

   Kharagpur serves a as thoroughpass for raw materials as well as for products passing through different parts of the country as it is an important transport node.

   1989, Applied Geography: Prof. S.P. Chatterjee Commemorative Volume

2. rareA way through; thoroughfare.

   Eventually they came out onto Hunter Avenue, a main thoroughpass segregating Hollywood's blue-collar district from the ritzier multimillion-dollar homes.

   2010, Michael Laimo, The Demonologist

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   […] the Bridge of Athlone over the River Shannon, the greatest thoroughpass in Ireland, has been long in a most narrow, dangerous and dilapidated state, […]

   1826, Journals of the House of Commons, volume 82, page 390