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headway (n.)
[headway 词源字典]
c. 1300, "main road, highway," from Old English
heafodweg
; see
head
(adj.) +
way
(n.). Sense of "motion forward" first attested 1748, short for
ahead-way
; ultimately nautical (compare
leeway
).
[headway etymology, headway origin, 英语词源]