cess-pathとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cess path ‎(複数形 cess paths)

1. (rail transport) Path running along the cess next to a railway line.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XII, p. 202, [1]

     […] the truck was lifted and the crumped mass freed from wheels and springs and rails and laid on a blanket on the cess-path […]

   • 1989, Oliver Gilbert, The Ecology of Urban Habitats, London: Chapman & Hall, 2012, section 8.1, [2]

     So successful are the spray mixtures applied in early summer each year that along mainlines very little grows on the permanent way or cess path.