road-makern.
/ˈrəʊdˌmeɪkə/, U.S. /ˈroʊdˌmeɪkər/ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > warrior > attacker > [noun] > raider
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overrunnera1657
raider1861
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Voleur,..an inroder, or a road-maker.
2. A person or company engaged in road construction.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builders or maintainers of roads
waymaker?c1475
roadman1788
road-maker1792
path master1799
roadsman?1807
Macadamite1821
macadamizer1824
road breaker1834
grader1870
asphalter1880
linesman1888
lengthman1902
highway patrol1909
1792 S. Wales Assoc. for Improvem. of Roads 3 If the different parishes will compound and pay their quota to the Commissioners, they follow their plan of repair with their own road maker.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 362 Might not gentlemen..contract with an improved road-maker at a particular price by the mile?
1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 30/2 The general practice of modern roadmakers is to make the surface slightly convex.
1893 Scribner's Mag. June 706/1 Road-makers log out the road to its proper width.
1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. xi. 102 The great road-makers of the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries also achieved a compromise between improvement and substitution.
1987 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 25 Aug. 10 Road-makers and electricity-producers, as well as mining companies, are calling on archaeologists to survey and record Aboriginal sites before their projects start.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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