motorway

noun

Etymology: From motor + way.

1. A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.

   “All the R. R.'s of America will have to be furnished with a biking way and a motor way on each side of the rails.”

   “Work of constructing the Texas Motorway, a stone highway which when completed will extend from Fort Worth to Del Rio, Tex., a distance of 500 miles, has been commenced and a section between 18 and 20 miles long running out from Glenrose, the county seat of Somervell County, has been completed.”

2. A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.

   “In December, track operators replaced the crushed rock with brick, earning the motorway the nickname, Brickyard.”

   “The 9-degree banking you see in the Speedway’s four turns is believed to be the first intentionally banked motorway in the United States.”