Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A tramway.
Wiktionary
- n. A set of footprints left in soft ground by a human or animal; especially such a fossilized track
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Any of two or more narrow paths, of steel, smooth stone, or the like, laid in a public roadway otherwise formed of an inferior pavement, as cobblestones, to provide an easy way for wheels.
Examples
“The trackway, which is preserved in sandstone, consists of three rows of crescent shaped footprints on each side of a central groove”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
“The trackway, which is preserved in sandstone, consists of three rows of crescent shaped footprints on each side of a central groove.”
“The trackway that crosses the rugged watershed of these Rhinog mountains climbs beyond the Lloyd homestead.”
“Walking along the drought-afflicted and shrunken Purgatoire River, we had an unusually good look at the longest documented dinosaur trackway in North America.”
“Susan Larson from the anatomy department is coaxing Parker down an enclosed trackway where scientists videotape monkey walking.”
“They don't appear to be rabbit tracks (there have been cases where the body of the rabbit creates an impression, overmasking the trackway), but it doesn't look like the journalist bothered to follow the tracks to see where they led.”
“The Roman Gartree Road is scored straight across south east Leicestershire, sometimes city street, sometimes country lane, more often than not just an ancient trackway between ash and beech, the haunt of owl and fox.”
“A larger print vertical hatching may represent a swimming animal moving from top to bottom. b, On the left is a generic Devonian tetrapod based on Ichthyostega and Acanthostega fitted to the trackway.”
“When I first read the trackway story, my Inner Creationist immediately came up with the “But it upsets the timetable and disproves evolution!” schtick.”
“You would think Luskin would have also read the Niedzwiedzki paper that describes this new trackway, which rather clearly describes the implications of the discovery.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trackway’.
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ways
As in routes, avenues & tracts. Omitting, e.g., halfway, anyway, sideways, folkway, Haddaway. (many of those are found thisways)
alleyway, byway, parkway, shaftway, hallway, skyway, runway, doorway, railway, thruway, archway, hatchway and 79 more...
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I Can't Believe It's Not Listed
Words that, at the I put them here, weren't being listed by anyone else in the entire universe.
vagus, neoplanet, fadiddy, cazique, catastroika, circumciser, commonplace book, danseuse, ecopod, dichloroacetate, underlay, overlay and 374 more...
Tweets
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reesetee Ha! Great minds, bilby. See ptero's profile page. :-) Aug 20, 2009
bilby "Paleontologists have just identified the world's first known landing trackway for a pterodactyloid pterosaur. This prehistoric flying reptile was so powerful that it needed several steps when landing to stop its forward momentum, according to a new study. The trackway, described in the latest Proceedings of the Royal Society B, provides a rare look at how these dinosaur-era animals behaved."
- Jennifer Viegas, Pterodactyl's Power Revealed by Landing Path, discovery.com, 19 August 2009. Aug 20, 2009