a. dial. [f. FOUR + went, pa. pple. of WEND to turn.] Only in four-went way(s, a point where four roads meet.
1776. T. Fisher, Kent. Trav. Comp., 34. This lane will bring the traveller to a four-went way, on which is fixed a direction-post.
1865. Mrs. Gatty, The Yew-Lane Ghosts, in Monthly Packet, XXIX. June, 609. At a certain point Yew-lane skirted a corner of the churchyard, and was itself crossed by another road, thus forming a ‘four-want-way,’ where suicides were buried in times past.
