Causey vs Causee - What's the difference?
causey | causee |
(obsolete) An embankment holding in water; a dam.
A causeway across marshy ground, an area of sea etc.
* c. 1460 , Merlin , vol. II:
* 1841 , Jacob Abbott, The Rollo Books :
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 177:
A paved path or highway; a street, or the part of a street paved with paving or cobbles as opposed to flagstones.
* 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , X:
As nouns the difference between causey and causee
is that causey is an embankment holding in water; a dam while causee is the agent of the caused event in a causative construction.causey
English
Alternative forms
* cauchieNoun
(en noun)- than com Soriondes with all his peple that was so grete, and sette ouer the cauchie so rudely as horse myght renne.
- He said he would pay them a cent for every two loads of stones or gravel which they should wheel in to make the causey .
- I could see through the open doorway some fishermen in guernseys sitting on the grass listening, and a boat was drawn up on the shingle and others moored to the cauchie .
- Satan went down The Causey to Hell Gate.