Crossword clues for roadbed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roadbed \Road"bed`\, n. In railroads, the bed or foundation on which the superstructure (ties, rails, etc.) rests; in common roads, the whole material laid in place and ready for travel.
Wiktionary
n. The prepared location for a road, including its foundation.
WordNet
n. a bed supporting a road
Usage examples of "roadbed".
Lightning up alongside the roadbed again, as the engineer eased his air brakes on and brought the locomotive hissing to a stop at the cattle blockade, its cowcatcher nearly touching the nearest cow.
He tried to run and his leg rebroke under him and he crawled up the ragged slope to the roadbed where it was happening.
Petrovsky's vehicle kept spinning, trailing wisps of hot vapor from its rollers, cold gas from its yaw/antispin jets, but it was hopelessly out of control and went whirling off the roadbed, past the shoulder and onto the ice.
An overturned sledge had spilled its contents onto the roadbed and the Bondless owners shouted obscenities at each other in between barked orders to the Notouch women scrambling to retrieve the canvas-wrapped packages before they were trampled under foot or hoof.
Transportation experts wondered how they could preserve the flow of traffic in and out of cities without building highways on roadbeds as high as the bunds, far into interior America.
The battered roadbed gave beneath his right foot where a trickle of groundwater seeped up to dampen the leather of his boots and creep in through the seams.
Out in the tram shed, only two large interurban coaches hovered in the maze of shallow stone alleyways the vehicles used for a roadbed.
And due to the ever-changing conditions of highways -- bridges out, overpasses collapsing, sinkholes in the roadbeds -- maps were constantly having to be updated.
The long rails slewed sideways and the railcar leapt free, plowing into the roadbed with a shower of gravel and a chorus of screams.
They analyzed the marks that resembled roadbeds, and found they were geological.
He looked down at the broken white stubs of buildings, at delicate airy bridges that had collapsed into mounds of rubble, at roadbeds of gleaming stone shot through with livid greens and blues extending to the horizon.
The glacier also brought massive boulders that it laid down in complex, swirling patterns that later residents would often use as roadbeds and quarry for building stone.
Instead of a thing of wonder and awe, it becomes the stuff of roadbeds and signposts, used with a profligacy that astounds those who have it not.
The man saluted, and now more of the skirmishers flooded into the road, moved quickly ahead, some stumbling on the roadbed.
Tommy's backbone jounced and jarred against one edge of the spare tire as O'Dell put the car into second gear and made an extremely sharp left-hand turn onto what was obviously no roadbed at all, but an open field.