A road made by digging.

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1870.  Descending to the valley by a dangerous “dugway,” we forded Green River.—J. H. Beadle, ‘Life in Utah,’ p. 219 (Phila., &c.).

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1878.  The coach turned directly away and labored up mountainous passes, and along frightful “dugways” for miles, to an elevation of hundreds of feet above the stream.—J. H. Beadle, ‘Western Wilds,’ p. 394.

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