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a road that calls the ocean's bluff, daring the tide to swallow it whole
means A raised road or path built across low, wet, or flooded ground or water, lifting travelers above the muck and the tide.
from From Middle English 'cauci wey,' a layering of two words for the same idea: 'way' (Old English 'weg,' a road) tacked onto 'causey,' itself from Anglo-Norman 'caucie' and Late Latin 'calciata' — a paved road, related to 'calx,' meaning limestone or chalk, the stuff trodden roads were beaten down with. So a 'causeway' is, etymologically, a 'limestone-road road,' the doubling worn smooth by centuries of mouths until no one noticed the redundancy.
- tidal trick
- Some flood twice daily, stranding drivers who ignore tide tables
- giant's lie
- Ireland's Giant's Causeway is cooled lava, not myth
- ancient tech
- Romans built stone causeways across marshes 2,000 years ago
- longest one
- China's Hangzhou Bay crossing spans roughly 22 miles
lake pontchartrain causeway — 26.3 mile bridge in louisiana, one of the longest over water in the world
king fahd causeway — 16 mile bridge connecting saudi arabia and bahrain, opened 1986
penang second bridge — 8.4 mile causeway in malaysia connecting penang island to mainland, completed 1997