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ˈroadway
[road n. 4.]
1. A way used as a road; † a highway.
In origin perh. = ‘riding-way’. In mod. use with approximation to sense 2.
1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa viii. 323 Through this citie lie two maine roade-waies. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. To Rdr. 53 Imploying them at home about some publike buildings, as bridges, rode waies for which those Romans were famous in this Iland. 1675Ogilby (title), Itinerarium Angliæ: or, a Book of Roads, wherein are contain'd the principal Road-Ways of..England and..Wales. 1830J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. 38 In the year 1724 a road-way was cut through its venerable trunk. 1840Railw. Times 25 Jan., To render the roadway to the station as convenient to the public as possible. 1880Jefferies Greene Ferne Farm 75 The roadway stopped abruptly.
attrib.1632Lithgow Trav. x. 495, I found..in diuerse Rode-way Innes..good Cheare, Hospitality, and Seruiceable attendance. 1877C. Geikie Christ i. (1879) 18 It looks like home to see vervain, road-way nettles, and thistles.
fig.1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 63 Neuer a mans thought in the world, keepes the Rode-way better then thine. 1627E. F. Hist. Edw. II (1680) 29 If Vertue be the Road-way to perfection. 1663Charleton Chor. Gigant. 28 In the road-way of every mans observation.
†b. transf. of the course of ships. Obs.
a1608Vere Comment. 54 A great ship was discovered on the road-way from the Indies. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. ii. xxiii. (1674) 170 Pilots..had made road-waies all over it [sc. the ocean].
2. The main or central portion of a road, esp. that used by vehicular traffic, in contrast to the side-paths.
1807Crabbe Par. Reg. i. 188 Between the road-way and the walls. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. x, Making unsteady sallies into the roadway, and as often staggering back again. 1885Law Times Rep. LIII. 65/2 The company were to repair the roadway for two years.
3. That portion of a bridge, railway, etc., on which traffic is conducted.
1834Penny Cycl. II. 261/1 We have not only the arch itself to consider, but..the roadway or building thereon constructed. 1853Sir H. Douglas Milit. Bridges 329 The vertical framing and roadway rest upon four circular ribs formed of several thicknesses of timber. 1861Times 22 Aug., The severity of the winter, which damaged their rolling stocks and seriously injured their roadways. 1901J. Black's Carp. & Build., Scaffolding 13 A spiral external roadway, whose easy inclination allowed building materials to be carried up it in little trolleys. |