Holloway

Quick meaning: Holloway is a noun meaning (UK) A road or track that is significantly lower than the land on either side, not formed by recent engineering but possibly of much greater age.

Meaning

(UK) A road or track that is significantly lower than the land on either side, not formed by recent engineering but possibly of much greater age.

Example Sentences

I enjoyed very much last week walking down that sunken track between Symondsbury and North Chideock--is that what one would call a 'holloway'?

Well, I see the road before me; sometimes I can see a bit further because I'm standing on a hill, sometimes I'm at the bottom of a holloway and have no idea even what lies on the other side of the hedge.

Six years later, after Roger Deakin's early death, Robert Macfarlane returned to the holloway with the artist Stanley Donwood and writer Dan Richards. The book is about those journeys and that landscape.

The first pronounced rise in the ridge is succeeded by Oldgate Nick: there isn't even a footpath crossing, but it is recognisable as a holloway. Here crossed a saltway from Cheshire rising from 5altersford Hall in the upper Todd valley

Word Forms

• holloways
• hollow way

Synonyms for holloway

Depending on context, synonyms include bostel, grundle, shute.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include langley, hazelwood.

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