crossway

«crossway» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: crossroads — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

crossroads

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A place where two or more roads meet. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "crossroads." The sentences use the old word.

examples

• Then they carried out the pots to a crossway. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• “I had an evil vision,” said she, “I saw crossways. (Irish Fairy Tales) tree →
• Her body was passed underneath the threshold and buried at a crossway. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →

primary record

crossway

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 5 (Torah 0, tales 5, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «crossway» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.