plankway

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a road made of rough-hewn planks laid across timbers running end-to-end at right angles to the planks.

Quotations

1849

The plank-way, on which is the travelling for rough-shod horses only, is 16 feet wide.

1965

Yet in spite of these hazards this 14-mile plankway may well hold a record: for its 30-year history is unmarred by death of injury.