DCHP-3

runway †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

See 1849 quote.

Quotations

1849
Knapp and his sons mustered their dogs, and the hunters went off to place themselves in pairs, at the "runways," or tracks where the deer usually pass, and towards which they would be driven by the dogs.
<i>c</i>1902
He sets no more snares across that runway, for the rabbits have had their alarm.
1948
Blind sets are successfully made in runways between racks and fallen trees near their dens. . . .
2n.

the channel or bed of a watercourse.

Quotations

1909
The bowsman points to a rude cross on the right bank where a small runway makes in. . . .
1930
Ted passed by the poplar bluff and down across the old corduroy road through the runway, still used in wet springs.