footway
(ˈfʊtweɪ)
[f. foot n. + way.]
1. A way or path for foot-passengers only.
| 1526 [see foot-path 1]. 1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 5 Any common high way, cartway, horseway, or foteway. 1712 Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) III. 474 In the Foot Way from South Hinksey to Foxcomb. 1776 G. Semple Building in Water 17 Each of the Foot-ways is..raised about a Foot above the Carriage-way. 1879 C. Geikie Christ li. 600 A footway ran from Gethsemane over the top of Olivet. |
2. Mining. (See quots.)
| 1778 Pryce Min. Cornub., Footway..in deep Mines they have old Shafts with ladders in them..by means of which they descend into the Mines; whence this is stiled the Foot⁓way; and those Shafts, when applicable to no other use, Footway Shafts. 1869 R. B. Smyth Goldf. Victoria 611. 1881 Raymond Mining Gloss., Foot-way, the series of ladders and sollars by which men enter or leave a mine. |