causey

See also: Causey

English

From Anglo-Norman caucie, chaucee et al., from Late Latin calceāta. In Guernsey use after Guernsey Norman cauchie.

causey (plural causeys)

(obsolete) An embankment holding in water; a dam. [14th–18th c.]
(now dialectal) A causeway across marshy ground, an area of sea etc.
- c. 1460, Merlin, volume II:
  than com Soriondes with all his peple that was so grete, and sette ouer the cauchie so rudely as horse myght renne.
- 1841, Jacob Abbott, The Rollo Books:
  He said he would pay them a cent for every two loads of stones or gravel which they should wheel in to make the causey.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 177:
  I could see through the open doorway some fishermen in guernseys sitting on the grass listening, and a boat was drawn up on the shingle and others moored to the cauchie.
(now dialectal) A paved path or highway; a street, or the part of a street paved with paving or cobbles as opposed to flagstones.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
  Satan went down The Causey to Hell Gate.