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Causey vs Causer - What's the difference?

causey | causer |

As nouns the difference between causey and causer

is that causey is (obsolete) an embankment holding in water; a dam while causer is someone or something that causes or produces an effect.

causey

English

Alternative forms

* cauchie

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) An embankment holding in water; a dam.
  • A causeway across marshy ground, an area of sea etc.
  • * c. 1460 , Merlin , vol. II:
    • than com Soriondes with all his peple that was so grete, and sette ouer the cauchie so rudely as horse myght renne.
  • * 1841 , Jacob Abbott, The Rollo Books :
    • 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 .
  • * 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 177:
    • 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 .
  • 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:
    • Satan went down The Causey to Hell Gate.

    Anagrams

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    causer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • someone or something that causes or produces an effect.

    • Synonyms

    * author * originator * source

    References

    * The New International Webster's Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language, Encyclopedic Edition (2003). ISBN 3-89893-979-0 ----