DCHP-1 Online
runway † 
1 n. See 1849 quote.
- c1902 He sets no more snares across that runway, for the rabbits have had their alarm.
- 1849 Knapp and his sons mustered their dogs, and the hunters went off to place themselves in pairs, at the "runways," or tracks where the deer usually pass, and towards which they would be driven by the dogs.
- 1948 Blind sets are successfully made in runways between racks and fallen trees near their dens. . . .
2 n. the channel or bed of a watercourse.
- 1909 The bowsman points to a rude cross on the right bank where a small runway makes in. . . .
- 1930 Ted passed by the poplar bluff and down across the old corduroy road through the runway, still used in wet springs.
- c1902 He sets no more snares across that runway, for the rabbits have had their alarm.