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roadwork
Also road work, road-work.
[road n.]
1. Work done in building or repairing roads. Also pl., repairs to roads.
1869Bradshaw's Railway Manual XXI. 100 To effect a diversion of road and other works. 1895Funk's Stand. Dict. s.v. road, n., road-work, n., labor expended in making or repairing roads. 1951R. Firth Elem. Social Organiz. iii. 118 There is one frame of organization..which regards a farm as a place for a man and his family..to use as a base from which to operate..in getting cash from road-work. 1958J. G. MacGregor North-West of 16 vii. 95 Up to this time all roadwork had been voluntary and consisted of a settler doing enough along the road each way from his place to remove the trees that fell across it. 1965F. Sargeson Mem. Peon ii. 21 His regular hours of road-work labour. 1966D. Francis Flying Finish x. 126 The horsebox drivers..had to make a detour because of roadworks.
2. The management of a vehicle, cattle, etc., on the road.
1889J. J. Hissey Tour Phaeton 395 A few hints about roadwork..will possibly prove acceptable. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 179, I have had road work, station work, sheep and cattle management.
3. The work of an itinerant thief. Criminals' slang.
1925H. Leverage in Flynn's 14 Mar. 281/1 Road work,..pocket picking, etc., done while traveling. 1955Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxiv. 84 Because of the stresses and strains of road work, he [sc. the road man] is usually a sharp, alert thief.
4. Work done on the roads, esp. exercise and training by athletes, sportsmen, etc.
1903Somerville & ‘Ross’ All on Irish Shore 159 The five couple and Carnage were..on a scent that was a real comfort to them after nearly five miserable months of kennels and road-work. 1928Funk's Stand. Dict. s.v. road, n., road-work, n., exercise taken on a road, as by athletes in training. 1950J. Dempsey Championship Fighting xxiv. 183 Roadwork means running on the road. 1964D. Francis Nerve xvi. 190 A..little used secondary road..served only two farms and one private house, and because of its quietness it was a regular route for the Axminster horses on roadwork days. 1969G. E. Evans Farm & Village x. 113 The most trouble we had with Suffolks on road-work was splinters and side-bone. 1971A. Burgess MF vi. 69 They trotted along, as in roadwork, in their orange-and-cream jerseys. 1977Time 25 July 39/2 He was doing roadwork and punching bags in preparation for his role in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull, a film about Fighter Jake La Motta. |