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ˈroadman
[road n. 4.]
1. A workman engaged in the making or upkeep of roads.
1816Duff Poems 58 The smarts O' rugged Roadman's whips an' carts. 1866G. Easton Autobiog. 66 They would have thought it below their dignity to break a lance in public with a ‘Roadman’. 1897Westm. Gaz. 17 June 5/1 Extra roadmen were put on to renovate the wood paving.
2. A person using the roads for any purpose. An itinerant canvasser or seller of goods, a travelling salesman; a tramp or vagrant; a road-racer.
1906S. E. Sparling Introd. Business Organiz. 206 Another method of direct selling is found in the system of canvassers and road-men sent out by factories. 1912A. S. M. Hutchinson Happy Warrior v. vi. 318 There cried to them ‘Away! away!’ all the instinct that, since first law came on the land, has bade roadmen, gipsies, outlaws, take immediate flight from trouble. 1949A. Miller Death of Salesman ii. 80 You're a road man, Willy... We've only got a half-dozen salesmen on the floor here. 1951Sport 27 Apr.–3 May 11/4 Sutherland..is a sprinter turned roadman, and it was in a sprint finish that he won his Empiad title in New Zealand. 1955Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxiv. 84 One can discern two different kinds of thief..: the road man is the more venturesome, the more restless. 1962J. D. MacDonald Key to Suite (1968) ii. 16 Once in Atlanta..one of Federal's road men..goosed the wife of the executive vice-president. 1976Star (Sheffield) 29 Oct. 27/1 The Horseshoe climb..is noted as a ‘roadman's’ course where riders such as Waugh can beat the hill specialists at their own game. |