| 1. | a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another. |
| 2. | a path or route that may lawfully be used. |
| 3. | a right of passage, as over another's land. |
| 4. | the strip of land acquired for use by a railroad for tracks. |
| 5. | land covered by a public road. |
| 6. | land over which a power line passes. |
| 7. | Fencing. the right to attack or continue an attack, and thus to be credited with a hit, by virtue of having first extended the sword arm or having parried the opponent's attack. |
| right of way also right-of-way (rīt'əv-wā') n. pl. rights of way or right of ways also rights-of-way (rīts'-) or right-of-ways (-wāz')
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