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What is a causey?

What is a causey? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) An embankment holding in water; a dam. [14th-18th c.]
  2. (now dialectal) A causeway across marshy ground, an area of sea etc.
  3. (now dialectal) A paved path or highway; a street, or the part of a street paved with paving or cobbles as opposed to flagstones.
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He was in the middle of his prayer when a noise came over the town, a dunting of hoofs on the causey of the Provost's house-front.
He stood on the edge of the causey, shouting loud vivas, as the bold cavaliers rushed among the canoes that blocked up the sluice.
Causey ate a large meal that evening, the best meal he'd eaten in nearly two years.
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.
Two of them, Ebbers and causey, had undergone congressional panel investigations beforehand.
And representing the North East will be Newcastle's Bridge Tavern, North Shields' Staith House, and County Durham's South Causey Inn.

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