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Paved vs Causey - What's the difference?

paved | causey |

As an adjective paved

is covered in pavement; having a hard surface, as of concrete or asphalt.

As a verb paved

is (pave).

As a noun causey is

(obsolete) an embankment holding in water; a dam.

paved

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Covered in pavement; having a hard surface, as of concrete or asphalt.
  • (figuratively) Laid out or made, as intentions, desires, plans, etc.
  • * The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (pave)

    • 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.

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