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• Road

  ·noun An inroad; an invasion; a raid. II. Road ·noun A journey, or stage of a journey. III. Road ·...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• road

  , or roadstead. An off-shore well-known anchorage, where ships may await orders, as St. Helen's at...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Road

  This word occurs but once in the Authorized Version of the Bible, viz. in (1 Samuel 37:10) where it ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Jinny road

  ·- An inclined road in a coal mine, on which loaded cars descend by gravity, drawing up empty ones. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Maoadam road

  ·- A macadamized road. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Skid road

  ·add. ·- A road having partly sunken transverse logs (called skids) at intervals of about five feet....

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Track-road

  ·noun A towing path. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Goswell Road

  North from Aldersgate Street at the Bars, in the Borough of Finsbury (P.O. Directory). So named 186...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• corduroy road

  A road or causeway constructed with logs laid together over swamps or marshy places. When properly f...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• leach-road

  the way peculiarly used for a funeral. West. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Gray's Inn Road

  North out of High Holborn to King's Cross (P.O. Directory). First mention: O.S. 1875. Former names...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• knight of the road

  A highwayman. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose