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One who has charge of the track; --called also roadmaster.

A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron.

See Trode. [Obs.]

A motor starter provided with an underload switch.

used to protect certain types of motors from running at excessive speed upon decrease of load.

To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast.

One who, or that which, unloads; a device for unloading, as hay from a wagon.

Same as Wagonful.

but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing. Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures. Milton. Wild woad (Bot.), the weld (Reseda luteola). See Weld. -- Woad mill, a mill grinding and preparing woad.

A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood- waxen.

Colored or stained with woad. "Man tattoed or woaded, winter- clad in skins." Tennyson.

position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.

To send abroad. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of sending abroad. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

rmal; irregular. Hallam. A character of a more abnormous cast than his equally suspected coadjutor. State Trials.

rder; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.

To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See Cloy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Furnished or loaded with acorns.

To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.