"causey" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Anglo-Norman caucie, chaucee et al., from Late Latin calceāta. In Guernsey use after Guernsey Norman cauchie.",
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      "form": "causeys",
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        "An embankment holding in water; a dam."
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        "(obsolete) An embankment holding in water; a dam."
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          "ref": "c. 1460, Merlin, volume II:",
          "text": "than com Soriondes with all his peple that was so grete, and sette ouer the cauchie so rudely as horse myght renne.",
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        {
          "ref": "1841, Jacob Abbott, The Rollo Books:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 177:",
          "text": "I could see through the open doorway some fishermen in guernseys sitting on the grass listening, and a boat was drawn up on the shingle and others moored to the cauchie.",
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        "A causeway across marshy ground, an area of sea etc."
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        "(now dialectal) A causeway across marshy ground, an area of sea etc."
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          "ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Satan went down The Causey to Hell Gate.",
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        "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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        "(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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        "An embankment holding in water; a dam."
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        "(obsolete) An embankment holding in water; a dam."
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          "ref": "c. 1460, Merlin, volume II:",
          "text": "than com Soriondes with all his peple that was so grete, and sette ouer the cauchie so rudely as horse myght renne.",
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        },
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          "text": "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.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 177:",
          "text": "I could see through the open doorway some fishermen in guernseys sitting on the grass listening, and a boat was drawn up on the shingle and others moored to the cauchie.",
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        "(now dialectal) A causeway across marshy ground, an area of sea etc."
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          "text": "Satan went down The Causey to Hell Gate.",
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        "(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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