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rollway
/ ˈəʊˌɱɪ /
noun
an incline down which logs are rolled for transportation
a series of rollers laid parallel to each other, over which heavy loads may be moved
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
At other places the bed of the stream was covered with ice, save for an occasional rollway, where the lumberer had piled his sawlogs upon its broken surface.
You want to keep your road so smooth that every load of logs will go down there like a boy down a barn rollway.
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.
Another rollway rumbled into the river, and Bill leaped into the open.
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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