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CAUSEWAY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A road that is raised above water or marshland or sand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("causeway" is a kind of...):

road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)

Derivation:

causeway (pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "causeway" is one way to...):

pave (cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

causeway (a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide with a causeway

Example:

A causewayed swamp

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "causeway" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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 Context examples: 

Gathering my mantle about me, and sheltering my hands in my muff, I did not feel the cold, though it froze keenly; as was attested by a sheet of ice covering the causeway, where a little brooklet, now congealed, had overflowed after a rapid thaw some days since.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

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