ROAD

Road. Road
(1 Sam. 27:10; R.V., “raid”), an inroad, an incursion. This word is never used in Scripture in the sense of a way or path.

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road. Road, n. a way for travelling on, anchorage some distance from shore

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Road (?), n. [[AS. rād a riding, that on which one rides or travels, a road, fr. rīdan to ride. See Ride, and cf. Raid.]] 1. 1. A journey, or stage of a journey.
With easy roads he came to Leicester. Shak. 2. 2. An inroad; an invasion; a raid. Spenser.
3. 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. ☞ The word is generally applied to highways, and as a generic term it includes highway, street, and lane. 4. 4. [[Possibly akin to Icel. reiði the rigging of a ship, E. ready.]] 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 . 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. The highway robber — road agent he is quaintly called. The century. — Road book, a guidebook 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 (Zoöl.), 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. — 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.