ROAD

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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

2.
n.

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

3.
n.

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.

4.
n.

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


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