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ˈroadside
Also road-side.
[road n. 4.]
1. The side next to the road. rare—1.
1712Steele Spect. No. 326 ⁋2, I..have therefore taken care to remove my Daughter from the Road-side of the House, and to lodge her next the Garden.
2. The side, or border, of the road; wayside.
1744J. Wilson Synop. Brit. Plants 56 Woolly-headed Thistle..by the road-sides in Huntingdonshire. 1789M. Madan tr. Persius (1795) 182 note, Beggars, who took their stands by the road-side. 1828Lytton Disowned i, Does the house you speak of lie on the road-side? 1862H. Marryat Year in Sweden II. 368 Junipers..grace the road⁓side. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 287 This charming spot, with the roadsides planted with tall trees.
fig.1847L. Hunt Men, Women & B. I. iv. 72 Permit at least this dream by the roadside of creation.
attrib.1810Crabbe Borough i. 126 Sewers from streets the road-side banks defile. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxvii, A road-side public-house of the better class. 1886Field 17 Oct. 542/1 Roadside waste, roadside pasture, and roadside turf belong presumably to the adjoining landowner. 1925F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby v. 98 Light, which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires. 1936Discovery Apr. 125/1 A pair of roadside thieves in Nevada. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake (1964) i. 31 The roadside tree the lady Holmpatrick planted. 1949Sun (Baltimore) 14 July 8/2 The Pennsylvania Highway Department is receiving appreciative comment from the motorists on its roadside rests. 1961A.A. Handbk. 12 A.A. Roadside Telephone Boxes are placed at carefully selected points along main roads. 1976Deeside Advertiser 9 Dec. 24/3 His companion was thrown against roadside signs.
Hence roadˈsider, a keeper of a roadside inn; one who lives by the side of a road.
1826Hood Fairy Tale i, Till he had made his pelf, And then retired—if one may call it so Of a roadsider. 1844W. H. Maxwell Scotland viii. (1855) 85 The ‘roadsider’ always wears a blue coat. |