raceway

[ reys-wey ]

/ ˈreɪsˌweɪ /

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noun

Chiefly British. a passage or channel for water, as a millrace.

a racetrack on which harness races are held.

Electricity. a channel for protecting and holding electrical wires and cables, especially a metal rectangular tube used for such purposes.

Machinery. race¹ (def. 11).

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Origin of raceway

First recorded in 1820–30; race¹ + way¹

Words nearby raceway

race suicide, racetrack, racetracker, race-walk, race walking, raceway, Rachel, rachilla, rachiotomy, rachis, rachitis

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How to use raceway in a sentence

One flash showed them the canoe dancing down the raceway of a lower rapid, and at the next it had disappeared.
Stranded in Arcady|Francis Lynde
Dr. Quink forced himself to relax, to ignore the ins and outs of the commuters' raceway.
You Don't Make Wine Like the Greeks Did|David E. Fisher
See the living stream pour into America through the raceway of Ellis Island.
Aliens or Americans?|Howard B. Grose
Went in swimming today twise, once down to the raceway and once up to the gravel.
The Real Diary of a Real Boy|Henry A. Shute

It reached the point where the curve of the opposite bank draws in to form the narrow raceway of the rapids.
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent|Harold Bell Wright

British Dictionary definitions for raceway

raceway

/ (ˈreɪsˌweɪ) /

noun

another word for race 1 (def. 5)

a racetrack, esp one for banger racing

another word (esp US) for race 1 (def. 6)

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