driveway Chiefly N. Amer.
(ˈdraɪvweɪ)
[f. drive v. + way.]
A way along which something is driven. a. A course along which game are driven in hunting. b. A road or way along which animals or vehicles are driven; a carriage drive. Also, a private carriageway for a motor vehicle alongside, in front of, or leading to a house, garage, or other building; a drive.
| 1870 Congress. Globe 2 Feb. 966/3, I doubt as to the policy of allowing this railroad to go along exactly in the track of where we propose to have a public drive-way. 1875 Temple & Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. 46 Capturing both larger and smaller sorts by means of drive⁓ways and in rude traps and yank-ups. 1884 Harper's Mag. Jan. 184/2 Winding driveways lead up to it from the road. 1889 Century Mag. Dec. 227/2 The decks [of a ferry-boat] were crowded with laboring men, the drive-ways choked with teams; the women and children standing inside the cabin. 1895 H. P. Robinson Men Born Equal 16 A carriage..came down the driveway. 1935 M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer xvi. 146 Harold was in the drive-way beside the house, about to start his car. 1945 Chicago Tribune 13 May vii. 1/1 Beyond the driveway that runs before her front gate, the greens start popping out of the moist earth. 1952 Manch. Guardian Weekly 28 Feb. 12 We twist into a driveway and have arrived. 1965 Priestley & Wisdom Good Driving ix. 65 It is often safer..to use a side-turning. A side-road or driveway..will do. 1966 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 9 May 7/3 [I] shovelled gravel to make a new driveway. 1971 ‘A. Blaisdell’ Practice to Deceive iv. 59, I always left the driveway light on for her. |
c. A passageway for the conveyance of hay, grain, etc., into a barn.
| 1839 Mass. Agric. Rep. 1838 80 The building should be so placed that the barn floor could be laid upon the beams, and the drive-way be into the end directly under the roof. 1868 Rep. Comm. Agric. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 242 Where it is practicable, it is best to have the drive-way for drawing in hay, grain and corn fodder enter the gable end. 1949 Pacific Spectator Spring 226 The upper floor, right on a level with the driveway, had a big haymow on the left. |
d. A scenic highway. Canada.
| 1909 Gow Ganda (Ont.) Tribune 1 May 1/1 The advisability of spending three hundred thousand dollars in building a driveway and boulevard along the Canadian side of the Niagara River. 1927 M. de la Roche Jalna x. 114 They were gliding slowly along an ocean driveway in Rosamond Trent's car. 1958 Saturday Night (Toronto) 27 Sept. 7/1 More trees, parks and driveways as handouts from the taxpayers of Canada. |