† 1. A way or path over land. Also advb. = by land. Obs.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 2681. Bi a lond weiȝe he wente riȝt.
c. 1470. Harding, Chron., CLXXVIII. xv. Thei tooke none hede of shippes home again But landeway ride for all the Scottes dain.
† 2. local. A path by which coal is landed. Obs.
1603. Owen, Pembrokesh., xi. (1891), 89. The people carried the coales vppon their backes alonge stayres which they called lande wayes.
3. U.S. A road giving access to land.
1899. D. P. Corey, Hist. Nalden, 90. The land-way and the drift-way along the five-acre lots ended at the head of the North River.
So Landways adv., by land, overland.
a. 1670. Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (1829), 14. He has them landways to London, and from thence transported them by sea over into France.
1804. Southey, in Ann. Rev., II. 63. It is remarkable that Newcastle coal should be cheaper than coal carried landways.
