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

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Road
(1 Sam. 27:10; R.V., "raid"), an inroad, an incursion. This word is never used in Scripture in the s...

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

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

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

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

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Track-road
·noun A towing path. ...

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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...

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knight of the road
A highwayman. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose