Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A surface along which cylindrical objects or objects on rollers may be moved, especially a naturally or artificially inclined surface used by lumberjacks to slide logs into a waterway for transport.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
landing . 9. - noun A natural incline (as the bank of a stream), or an inclined structure, down which heavy bodies, especially logs, are propelled by their own weight; a shoot.
- noun In lumbering, a mass of logs piled up for rolling down to or into a stream, or placed upon the ice to await spring freshets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place prepared for rolling logs into a stream.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An inclined slope prepared for
rolling logs into astream or into amill - noun rare A series of cylindrical metal rolls placed between two rails and spaced apart, used to convey materials along a production line.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was a cellar of the oldest pattern, with no step, having an entrance on a level with the road, the same being a "rollway" wide enough to admit barrels of cider and other produce.
Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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They got 'em pretty well cleared before the logs in the rollway got loose.
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The runway or rollway on which he had arrived had folded gently back into place.
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Poor Harry was killed in this rollway; he'll be buried by her side.
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And Alec Tois, their rollway man, to load the timber on.
Three McFarlands 1997
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Upon leaving the office, the boss headed straight for the rollway, and the mere holding his direction taxed his brain to the exclusion of all other thoughts.
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In his daily excursions to the bird's-eye rollway he never took the same route twice, but skulked, peering fearfully about in the underbrush, avoiding even the game trails.
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All night they piled fuel upon the fire, and in the morning their efforts were rewarded by a pile of ashes that would easily be mistaken for the ruins of the bird's-eye rollway.
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Rollway after rollway tore loose and the released logs, swept downward by the resistless push of the current, climbed one upon another and lodged.
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Other men came -- the ones who had fled from the rollway, their curiosity conquering their fear at the sight of the dead man.
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