cess path
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[edit]cess path (plural cess paths)
- (rail transport) Path running along the cess next to a railway line.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia[1], New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 202:
- […] the truck was lifted and the crumped mass freed from wheels and springs and rails and laid on a blanket on the cess-path […]
- 1989, Oliver Gilbert, The Ecology of Urban Habitats[2], London: Chapman & Hall, published 2012, section 8.1:
- So successful are the spray mixtures applied in early summer each year that along mainlines very little grows on the permanent way or cess path.