The Collaborative International Dictionary
Road \Road\ (r[=o]), n. [AS. r[=a]d a riding, that on which one rides or travels, a road, fr. r[=i]dan to ride. See Ride, and cf. Raid.]
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A journey, or stage of a journey. [Obs.]
With easy roads he came to Leicester.
--Shak. An inroad; an invasion; a raid. [Obs.]
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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.
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[Possibly akin to Icel. rei[eth]i 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 [road].
--Spenser.On the road, or Uponthe road, traveling or passing over a road; coming or going; traveling; 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 guidebook in respect to roads and distances.
road kill See roadkill in the vocabulary.
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 (Zo["o]l.), 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.
Wiktionary
alt. (context chiefly US archaic English) A criminal who accosts travelers and robs them. n. (context chiefly US archaic English) A criminal who accosts travelers and robs them.
WordNet
n. a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it [syn: highjacker, highwayman, hijacker]
Wikipedia
Road agent may refer to:
- Another name for highwayman
- Road Agent (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling liaison between the wrestlers and management
- Road Agent (1941 film), directed by Charles Lamont
- Road Agent (1952 film), directed by Lesley Selander
- Road Agent (car), a bubble topped car created by Ed Roth
Road Agent is a 1952 Western film.
Usage examples of "road agent".
You never were worth a damn as a soldier, and you haven't improved any as a road agent.
Taking me for a road agent, you see, so I pointed out the inscription and assured him in my best Pall Mall drawl that I was the party referred to.
As Longarm and others had surmised, the combination of a remote location and all that cross-country traffic passing through a tighter than usual bottleneck had conspired to attract the attention of more than one dangerous tinhorn or out-and-out road agent.
Things had gotten to where a lawman wound up on the infernal front pages every time he had to gun a foolish road agent.
So the young cuss who'd lost that fight with Longarm as they'd been crossing the white water of the San Juan had been a known road agent called Mermaid Morrison.