barway

English

Etymology

From bar +‎ way.

Noun

barway (plural barways)

1. A passage into a field or yard between a fence or wall, closed by bars that can be lifted out of the posts.
   • 1922, Samuel Scoville, Jr., “Blackcross”, in Wild Folk:

     Through the very middle of the tangle ran the naked trunk of a fallen chestnut, showing just above the barbed vines. As the pack scrambled through the barway at the foot of the hill, the little fox ran along the log, and with all his last remaining strength sprang far out across the interlaced tangle of vine and thorn, where the smooth needles under a little white pine made a tiny island in the thicket.

   • 1927, Clarence Hawkes, “Chapter 11”, in Redcoat:

     Something must be done, and his sharp fox wits never stood him in better stead than they did on this memorable chase, for when the hounds came up to the stone wall they followed it for about thirty rods northward and then at a barway, an artificial break in the stone wall, the trail suddenly ended.

References

• “barway”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.