Road

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ROAD, sb. and v. Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. Eng. and Amer. Also written rhode Lin.; rode Ir. Lin. Som.; and in forms roaäd Chs.; rooad n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 w.Yks. m.Lan.1 [rōd, roəd.] 1. sb. In comb. (1) Road-axe, a piece of wood for retaining the body of a special form of ‘butt’ upon its frame; (2) Road-axe butt, see below; (3) Road-balk, an overgrown fellow; (4) Road-bat, a piece of wood which guides the coulter of a plough; (5) Road-gang, (6) Road-gate, a roadway; (7) Road-man, (a) a person in charge of the roads of a district; one employed in the making and repairing of roads; carter who drives loads of stones for the repair of a road; (b) in mining: one who has charge of the ways of a mine; (8) Road-money, a rate imposed for the maintenance of roads; (9) Road-proud, see below; (10) Road-reddens, (11) Road-ribbings, (12) Road-scrapings, mud raked from the roads to the sides in cleaning; (13) Road-side room, room to pass; (14) Road-stamper, a wooden leg; (15) Road-stoor, the dust on roads. (1) Dev. Reports Provinc. (1893). (2) In the old form of butts, known as ‘road-axe butts,’ the body was quite loose upon the frame, and detachable from it, and... the ‘tripping’ was effected by means of ‘trip-chains.’ I believe this form is now quite obsolete, Reports Provinc. (3) w.Yks. Leeds Merc. Suppl. (Sept. 26, 1896). (4) Ken.1 (5, 6) n.Yks.2 (7, a) Sc. (Jam.), Cai.1, Bnff.1 Per. The very roadman's left the road, Haliburton Ochil Idylls (1891) 20; Had you liv'd lang t've felt the smarts Of rugged roadman's whips an' carts, Duff Poems, 58 (Jam.). Ayr. Johnston Kilmallie (1891) I. 36. Nhb. The cottages of roadmen and quarrymen, Graham Red Scaur (1896) 45. w.Yks. (J.W.) (b) Lnk. We are relaying the roads at the ‘bottom,’ and I promised Sleepers, the roadman, to be down again to see how they were getting on, Gordon Pyotshaw (1885) 232. (8) Wgt. The collector of road-money sent his clerk to S. for payment of his share of that tax, Fraser Wigtown (1877) 277. (9) Ken.1 Crops which look well from the road, but are not so good as they look, are said to be road-proud. (10, 11) Dmf. Wallace Schoolmaster (1899) 352. (12) Gall. (A.W.), w.Yks. (J.W.) Dor. Agnus Jan Oxber (1900) 152. (13) Lnk. The deil might sook his muckle thoomb, I wadna gie him roadside room, Murdoch Doric Lyre (1873) ii. (14) Lnk. There was nothing for it but amputation and a prospective stick-leg, similar to the fou tailor's own iron-virled road-stamper, MURDOCH Readings (1895) II. 128. (15) Lnk. Road-stoor, here and thither wafted, Murdoch Doric Lyre (1873) 66. 2. A direction, way; also fig. method, manner. Sc. (A.W.) Ir. It's just be the road of humouring her now and agin, Barlow Lisconnel (1895) 10. N.I.1 What road are you going? n.Yks.4 Neeabody nowt neea different neeawaays ti neeabody i'neea road, 7. w.Yks. They doan't boil eggs that rooad (Æ.B.); w.Yks.3 w.Yks.5 If thah doesn't come this rōad, I'll help thuh, sharp. Lan. That's allus th' road when he shows hissen, Burnett Haworth's (1887) xviii; The neighbours mun be stirred up some road, Brierley Cast upon World (1886) 80. ne.Lan. Mak' him smart i' that road, Mather Idylls (1895) 79. m.Lan.1 Chs. Hoo... pushed her roaäd through th' folks, Clough B. Bresskittle (1879) ii; Chs.1 That's not th' reet road for do it, come an' I'll show thee. Not.1 s.Not. Ah can show yer a better road o' doin' it nor that (J.P.K.). sw.Lin.1 One mut speak when things ain't going the right road. Lei.1 A child remarked of a book which a servant was pretending to read, ‘Whoy, you'n got it the wroong rood oop.’ War.2 I'll shown'd yer th' road to plant taters; War.3 ‘I never 'eerd he was teetotal.’ ‘No, I allus thought he was t'other road.’ w.Wor.1 s.Wor.1 Er don't know the right road to dink a babby. se.Wor.1 Shr.1 Yo' come by, an' I'll shewn yo' the roäd. Hrf.2, Glo. (A.B.), Glo.1 3. A place where a woodcock seeks its food. Der.2, nw.Der.1 4. The passage of wild-fowl. e.Som. W. & J. Gl. (1873). 5. Phr. (1) any road, anyhow, by any means; (2) in one's or the road, in one's way, inconvenient to one; (3) no road, by no means; (4) out in the road, out of the way; (5) out of one's or the road, (a) see (4); (b) dead; killed; (c) expensive, dear; (6) to be never out of one's road, (a) never to lose sight of one's own interests; (b) to be not easily incommoded or disappointed; (7) to go to road, (a, b) see below; (8) to put out of the road, (a) to disappoint; (b) to trouble; (c) to kill; (9) to take the road, to go one's way; (10) to turn to road, see (7, a). (1) e.Dur.1, Yks. (J.W.) (2) Sc. I hope I'm no in your road, says I, drawing my chair... back, Whitehead Daft Davie (1876) 162, ed. 1894; Ye're like the gudeman's mother, ay in the gude-wife's road. ‘I wadna see you in my road.’ Addressed to one who under the pretence of working is viewed as merely impeding another (Jam.). Cai.1 Frf. She sudna be i' the sheep's road, Inglis Ain Flk. (1895) 24. n.Cy. (J.W.), e.Dur.1, Yks. (J.W.), Stf. (H.K.), Not.1, Lei.1, Nhp.1, War.3 Wor. It won't be in the road o' nothing (H.K.). Glo. Move the jug off the table, it's in the road (A.B.). Hnt. (T.P.F.) (3) e.Dur.1, w.Yks. (J.W.) Stf. Oi canna get a rabbit for a pie, no road, wi' them young mushroomin' beggars, Cornh. Mag. (Jan. 1894) 41. Shr. They couldna get shet on 'em no rŏäd, Burne Flk-Lore (1883) vi. (4) n.Yks.1 (5, a) Bnff. Just gie him something, Maggie, and get him oot o' the road, Smiles Natur. (1876) ii. e.Dur.1, n.Yks.4 w.Yks. Side aht o' mi rooad (Æ.B.). Lan. Wee'st ha ta get him aat o' th' rooad some rooad, Ackworth Clog Shop Chron. (1896) 354. n.Lin.1 Get oot o' th' roäd, can't you. sw.Lin.1, Not.1, Lei.1, War.3, Oxf.1, Cor.3 (b) Abd. Na, I'll seen be deid. I thocht I wid be oot o' the road by this time, Greig Logie o' Buchan (1899) 311. n.Yks.4, w.Yks. (J.W.) (c) n.Lin.1 I would hev boht his wool, but he ax'd that oot o' th' roäd for it that I dars n't gie him a bid. Them sheep was n't oot o' th' roäd for cost. (6, a) Sc. Happen what will, ye're never out o' your road (Jam.). Nhp.1 They can't catch you at fault, you're never out of your road. Hnt. (T.P.F.) (b) Sc. (Jam.) (7, a) w.Som.1 A very common practice among small owners, viz. to let out donkeys or cattle to browse on the roadside. Unfortunately the habit does not stop there, but is frequently followed by opening the gate of a neighbour's field after night-fall. nw.Dev.1 (b) Som. Late at night or early in the morning to go out to shoot wild fowl which pass over head on the wing, Jennings Obs. Dial. w.Eng. (1825); (W.F.R.) (8, a) n.Lin.1 He was rare an' putten oot o' th' road when th' letter wi' th' cheque e' it did n't cum. (b) n.Lin.1 Thoo's as much putten oot o' th' roäd wi' that one bairn o' thine as Jim L---'s wife was when she'd twins twice within a twelvemunth. (c) n.Lin.1 We've oher many cats; I shall hev sum on 'em putten oot o' th' roäd. (9) Frf. James his duds Reekt out frae bole, and press, and kist, To take the road amang the rest, Sands Poems (1833) 71. (10) w.Som.1, nw.Dev.1 6. v. To repair roads. n.Lin.1 7. To clean out a drain, to cut and clear away the weeds in a drain or dike. Lin. The Welland to be roaded, rooked, hooked, haffed, scowered and cleansed, Order of Sewers (1616) in Wheeler Hist. Fens, Append. IV. ii. m.Lin. & s.Lin. (E.P.) s.Lin. It is necessary to do this two or three times a year (A.A.). 8. To make a beaten track by repeated walking. Bnff.1 The fouck hae roadit a' the eyn-rig. Cai.1 9. To force or jostle one off the road by riding or driving against him. e.An.1 10. Obs. To run races with teams upon the road. e.An.1 e.Nrf. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1787) I. 44. 11. To show the way. N.I.1 Who roaded you? Chs.1 Aw'll road thee heaw to manage him. 12. To carry, convey. n.Yks.1 When Ah've ower mony coppers at yam, Ah roads it te Kester Cooper's. w.Yks.1 Thou may road thysel out. [Amer. This colt can road you right along all day inside of five minutes, Cent. Mag. (Mar. 1882).] 13. Fig. To conduct a transaction; to perform a piece of work. n.Yks.1; n.Yks.2 We maunt hae 't rooaded i' that geeat. Hence Roaded, ppl. adj. treated; dealt with. n.Yks.1 ‘Ah's badly rooaded, Ah's seear’; said by a walking postman who had one of his heels blistered and ‘a tae brussen wi' t'cau'd’; n.Yks.2 14. Of a woodcock: to seek its food. Der.2, nw.Der.1 Hence Roading-time, sb. the time for netting woodcocks. nw.Dev. The expression ‘roading-time’ is supposed to mean the time when they come up along regular paths or roads from the valleys to the feeding-grounds (R.P.C.). 15. With in: of wild-fowl: to fly inland to their resting-places at night. Som. They do rode into Ebden way, &c. (W.F.R.); It is used throughout the Som. coast by gunners, who wait in the marshes in the Bristol Channel, in the evening, to shoot wild fowl ‘roding in’ half an hour after sunset, N. & Q. (1885) 6th S. xi. 188. 16. To go out to shoot wild-fowl as they pass overhead on the wing. e.Som. W. & J. Gl. (1873). 17. Of small birds: to run along the ground before the sportsmen, instead of taking wing. Rxb. (Jam.) 18. Of a sporting dog: to follow game closely; to track by scent. Abd. When a dog was on the track of partridges, he said it was ‘roadin' fools,’ Paul Abd. (1881) 106. Rxb. To follow game when running along the ground before the sportsmen (Jam.). Wmh. He is roding well to-day (W.M.).

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