runway
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8.0
- noun
- /ˈrʌnˌweɪ/
- Jargon
:
rampa para troncos (término técnico, EE. UU.)
- After constructing the new runway, the team was eager to test it with the logs.
Examples
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They cleared the path for the runway to facilitate the movement of timber during the logging season.
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Our runway isn't long enough for a bird your size.
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We haven't anything to work the runway, except a few hand tools from the vehicles.
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Well, now we've got to finish clearing a runway.
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Some were later used as anchors or in runway construction during WWII.
Academic text (2004) -
The tractor then plows a runway for a plane, carrying racers and supplies.
Blog text (14) -
"Runways" dug by voles below leave a lasting impression on their grassland habitat.
Academic text (2002) -
I told her how Long Chase and I had built a willow stockade around our tipi, with a small runway for the ponies to protect them from night drafts.
Fiction book (1994) -
The sleighs—pungs, we called them—were on the land, next to the ice house, and while I was gone, Mr. Lesko and his son had cut a runway into the lake's shallow end for floating the cakes of ice to shore.
Fiction book (1996) -
The workers used a steep runway to slide the heavy logs down to the river.
Synonyms
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4.2
A sloping passage like a slide that lets people or things go down
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5.9
A long flat plank placed under heavy objects to help move them
How Steep
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Morphology
Etymology
The word runway in logging is again run + way, a 'way where things run'; it describes the sloping track where logs 'run' down to the mill.