lichway

Etymology

From lich + way.

lichway means the path by which the dead are carried to the grave. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.

Why this word is great

LICHWAY — [Noun] A path or road by which a corpse is carried to the grave. From Middle English lich ("corpse, body") + way ("path, road"). Unlike a "lychgate," a stationary, roofed shelter at the churchyard's edge, or a "funeral procession," the transient ceremony of the living, a lichway is the permanent geography of final passage. It is the sunken lane between mossy stone walls, the hard-worn groove in the grass of a country churchyard, the precise line of trampled earth that reappears no matter how one sows the seed—the landscape's indelible map of our oldest and most certain journey.

noun

The path by which the dead are carried to the grave.