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Backway vs Packway - What's the difference?

backway | packway |

As nouns the difference between backway and packway

is that backway is a back alley while packway is a path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals.

backway

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A back alley.
  • * (Charles Dickens), Barnaby Rudge
    • Gliding along the silent streets, and holding his course where they were darkest and most gloomy, the man who had left the widow's house crossed London Bridge, and arriving in the City, plunged into the backways , lanes, and courts

    packway

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals.