[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To pave with cobbles or pebbles. Chiefly as a (supposed) anglicizing of CAUSEY v.
1740. Williams, in Phil. Trans., XLI. 468. A Circle of Two Feet Diameter … causwayed with small stones laid edgeways.
1814. Scott, in Lockhart (1839), IV. 191. The streets flagged instead of being causewayed.
1848. H. Miller, First Impr., xi. (1857), 175. Quartz pebbles, used in causewaying footways. Ibid. (1854), Sch. & Schm., xii. (1858), 267. A few loads of water-rolled pebbles for causewaying a floor.
2. To fill up, or cross, with a raised causeway.
1870. Daily News, 24 Sept., 5/6. They were causewaying the approaches to the timber platform with grassy sods sliced from the bank.
1887. E. D. Morgan, in Proc. R. Geog. Soc., IX. 237. The worst parts had been roughly bridged or causewayed.
Hence Causewayed ppl. a., Causewaying vbl. sb. (Mostly for causeyed, -ing.)
1865. Daily Tel., 28 Nov., 7/3. Ten miles along the causewayed track.
1876. Page, Adv. Text-bk. Geol., vii. 136. Their extensive use in causewaying and macadamising.
1882. R. Munro, Sc. Lake Dwellings, 22. What may be called a rough, loose causewaying of stones.
