way-station

way-station (plural way-stations)

1. Alternative form of way station.
   • 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Flight of two Owls”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 285:

     Just then, as it happened, the train reached a solitary way-station.

   • 1975, Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr., The Positive Hero in Russian Literature, 2nd edition, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 37:

     Here Belinsky has reached a way-station on the route to something else.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:

     At one of the way-stations on his long journey a barmaid at a tavern speaks to Gilgamesh and tries to give him common sense on the human condition.

   • 2013, Cara N. Cilano, Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English: Idea, Nation, State (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series), Routledge, →ISBN, page 18:

     At the same time, Mano Majra serves as the site of a murder-burglary, attempted communist activities, and “ghost train” way-station.