| 单词 | road allowance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroad allowance road allowance n. (a) an allowance of money, provisions, etc., made to people travelling on the road (rare); (b) Canadian a strip of land retained by government authorities for the construction of a road; (c) Canadian an area at either side of a road which remains a public right of way. ΘΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > parts of road > [noun] > land for construction of or on either side of road road allowance1830 1830 P. Dobell Trav. Kamtchatka & Siberia I. 202 Independently of the road allowance in money, I gave these people twelve hands of tobacco..and trinkets of various kinds. 1831 Statutes Province Upper Canada 556 It shall and may be lawful for the owners of the land in the first concession of the township of Binbrook, to take, hold, occupy, and enjoy the road allowance in front of the said first concession. 1844 Niagara (Canada) Chron. 29 May 2/2 A bill was introduced..entitled ‘An act to close up the Road Allowance between Lots Nos. 42 and 43..in the township of Cayuga’. 1947 E. A. McCourt Music at Close 43 He..rode west along the road-allowance until he reached a part of the country which was new to him. 1973 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 14 Mar. 3/1 In the 1783 survey of the lakefront townships, the provision had been made for a 60-foot road allowance across the front. 2006 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 22 July r5/5 They lived..in tents along the road allowances in the summer. < as lemmas |
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