Brewer's: Foss-way

One of the four principal highways made by the Romans in England, leading from Cornwall to Lincoln. It had a foss or ditch on each side of it. (See Ermine Street.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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