or CAUSEY, a massive construction of stones, stakes, and fascines; or an elevation of fat viscous earth, well beaten: serving either as a road in wet marshy places, or as a mole to retain the waters of a pond, or prevent a river from overflowing the lower grounds. See ROAD.—The word comes from the French chaussée, anciently wrote chausée; and that from the Latin calceata, or calceata; according to Somner and Spelman, à calcanio. Bergier rather takes the word to have had its rise à pedium calceis, quibus teruntur. Some derive it from the Latin calx, or French chaux, as supposing it primarily to denote a way paved with chalk stones.

(calceatum or calcea), more usually denotes a common hard raised way, maintained and repaired with stones and rubbish.

Devil's Causeway, a famous work of this kind, which ranges through the county of Northumberland, commonly supposed to be Roman, though Mr Horsley suspects it to be of later times.

GIANT'S Causeway, is a denomination given to a huge pile of stony columns in the district of Coleraine in Ireland. See GIANT'S Causeway.