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rollway
/ ˈəʊˌɱɪ /
noun
- an incline down which logs are rolled for transportation
- a series of rollers laid parallel to each other, over which heavy loads may be moved
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At other places the bed of the stream was covered with ice, save for an occasional rollway, where the lumberer had piled his sawlogs upon its broken surface.
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You want to keep your road so smooth that every load of logs will go down there like a boy down a barn rollway.
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It was a cellar of the oldest pattern, with no step, having an entrance on a level with the road, the same being a "rollway" wide enough to admit barrels of cider and other produce.
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Another rollway rumbled into the river, and Bill leaped into the open.
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Other men came—the ones who had fled from the rollway, their curiosity conquering their fear at the sight of the dead man.
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