ROADS

roads, roadstead

(noun) a partly sheltered anchorage

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

roads

plural of road

Noun

roads pl (plural only)

(nautical, occasionally in the singular) A roadstead.

Anagrams

• Rados, Sardo, dorsa, rados, sarod

Source: Wiktionary


ROAD

Road, n. Etym: [AS. rad a riding, that on which one rides or travels, a road, fr. ridan to ride. See Ride, and cf. Raid.]

1. A journey, or stage of a journey. [Obs.] With easy roads he came to Leicester. Shak.

2. An inroad; an invasion; a raid. [Obs.] Spenser.

3. A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. The most villainous house in all the London road. Shak.

Note: The word is generally applied to highways, and as a generic term it includes highway, street, and lane.

4. Etym: [Possibly akin to Icel. reithi the rigging of a ship, E. ready.]

Definition: A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads. Shak.

Now strike your saile, ye jolly mariners, For we be come unto a quiet rode [road]. Spenser. On, or Upon, the road, traveling or passing over a road; coming or going; on the way. My hat and wig will soon be here, They are upon the road. Cowper.

– Road agent, a highwayman, especially on the stage routes of the unsettled western parts of the United States; -- a humorous euphemism. [Western U.S.] The highway robber -- road agent he is quaintly called. The century.

– Road book, a quidebook in respect to roads and distances.

– Road metal, the broken, stone used in macadamizing roads.

– Road roller, a heavy roller, or combinations of rollers, for making earth, macadam, or concrete roads smooth and compact.

– often driven by steam.

– Road runner (Zoƶl.), the chaparral cock.

– Road steamer, a locomotive engine adapted to running on common roads.

– To go on the road, to engage in the business of a commercial traveler. [Colloq.] -- To take the road, to begin or engage in traveling.

– To take to the road, to engage in robbery upon the highways.

Syn.

– Way; highway; street; lane; pathway; route; passage; course. See Way.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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