A path or way along the ground, or the ground-level route of travel.
From ground + way (Old English 'weg,' from Proto-Germanic). Archaic or dialectal term for ground-level pathways, less common than footpath or trail.
Before the Industrial Revolution, most travel happened on groundways—footpaths worn into the earth by centuries of footsteps—and medieval maps sometimes showed these worn routes as clearly as modern roads.
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