fallway
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: fall‧way
Noun[edit]
fallway (plural fallways)
- (US) A well or opening, through the successive floors of a factory or warehouse or the decks of a ship, providing access for goods, material, or people.
- Synonym: drophole
- 1940, “School Building Problems Solved by Kernerators”, in American School & University, volume 12, page 113, column 2:
- In existing buildings where no flue is available either large enough to provide a fallway or located conveniently for hopper doors, a basement-fed KERNERATOR provides all of the advantages except the hopper-door convenience
- A hydraulic canal, as for a water-powered mill.
- 1935, Louis Fischer, Soviet Journey:
- The remaining fallways are dry; the water that would otherwise beautify them is caught by the maw of the power station
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Further reading[edit]
- John Russell Bartlett (1877) “Fall-Way”, in Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 206.