Apparently: (a name for) a chief or main road; a highway. Obsolete.

Originally: a main road, either in a town or city or constituting a principal connecting route; a public highway; also in extended use. Later…

spec. A main road forming the direct or usual route between one town or city and another, distinguished from a local road or byway; a highway. Now…

General attributive, as †port-dog, †port highway, †port-hound, †port-wall, †port woman, etc. See also portman, n.1, portmoot, n., portreeve, n., and…

= port-way, n.1

A public highway, a road connecting two towns; (often) a Roman road.

gen. A public road; esp. the principal road forming the direct or usual route between one town or city and another, distinguished from a local…

A main road, a highway; a high street. Frequently figurative: the chief or most direct way; (in quot. 1721) honesty, straightforwardness.

A road, street, lane, or path forming a route between two other roads or streets, or between two places; a public way unobstructed and open at both…

A country road, or a main road outside the urban areas, where unimpeded driving is possible. In figurative contexts: freedom of movement.

The road, the highway. Obsolete.

A public road made and maintained by the region through which it runs. Obsolete.

the toby: the highway as the resort of robbers; ‘the road’; also transferred highway robbery (called also the toby concern, toby lay); hence to plyo…

toby-gill, high toby gloak, high toby spice (also high spice toby): see quots.

A way or route through; an entrance; a thoroughfare; esp. a narrow passageway forming a route between two other roads or streets, or between two…