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1790 Let. in Monthly Repository Theol. & Gen. Lit. (1813) Nov. 705 I intend to travel in a single horse-chaise, for the benefit of accommodating the journey to my own feelings... It is also as cheap, if not cheaper, than the road machines.

1879 28th Ann. Rep. Indiana State Board Agric. 1878 136 [It] is a scraper for grading and leveling road-beds... This road machine may be attached to any farm wagon.

1921 Motorcyle & Bicycle Illustr. 6 Oct. 22 Haven't you, Mr. Rider, often longed for the speediest road machine in town—a real wonder motorcycle that you could tell all the fellows about.

1995 Visit'n: Conversat. with Vermonters (Vermont Folklife Center) 30/1 He..wanted to know if he could get my father's horses to work on the road machine with his team, because it took four horses to use that big machine and cut the ditches open and whatnot.

2008 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 25 Dec. d1 The company made major changes to its least expensive road machines, including a lower seat height, a rubber-mounted engine, [etc.].