DCHP-3

right-of-way

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1†n.

a strip of land granted or sold to a company for the construction of a railway, power line, etc.

Quotations

1911
Then the right-of-way cutters, who cut down and burn the timber and brush to a width of a hundred feet.
1966
Hydro uses muskeg vehicles . . . in maintenance work along its right-of-way.
2n. — Esp. West

a strip of land between surveyed concessions, ranges, sections, etc., retained by the municipality for the construction of a road.

See: road allowance(def. 1)

Quotations

1895
The right-of-way for the new road has been procured for almost the entire distance.
1957
Right-of-way maintenance has been improved, and all right-of-ways are now mowed.
1963
. . . modern highways would not carry heavy traffic loads if the soft "black dirt" on right of ways had not been excavated and replaced with firm aggregate.