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Roadster is British slang for a hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country.
Engineer's side of cab (on nearly all North American roads). Left-hand side is fireman's side. When a fireman is promoted he is set up to the right-hand side
running around the roads when expected to be at home; a run-about
Shitter (rectum). When I sat down there was a pin on my chair! Right up the council gritter! He reports that a council gritter is the machine that comes around and puts grit on icy roads
Unwashed thieving person, often said to be found living in caravans on laybys on B-roads in Britain.
Roadside sobriety test.
Gas or gas-electric coach, usually used on small roads or branch lines not important enough to support regular trains; name derived from sound of its bell. Sometimes called doodlebug
n the black-and-white striped pathways drawn across roads where pedestrians have right of way and motorists have to stop if anyone is waiting by them. The phrase has been slightly usurped by the less exciting term “pedestrian crossing.” While this very concept of “it’s alright, on you go, the cars all have to stop” is dangerous enough, a great deal of them are positioned straight after roundabouts where motorists are least likely to be ready for them. I swear these things are part of some sort of population control policy. To make them marginally easier to see, some of them are marked with Belisha Beacons.
n the London Underground railway. Londoners are clearly not as inspired as Glaswegians, who call theirs the “Clockwork Orange.” In the U.S., these sorts of rail systems are known as “subways” which, no doubt in order to cause confusion, is what the Brits call the walkways which go underneath roads, where tramps live and drunk people urinate.
n manual worker on roads or railways. It comes from the word “navigator,” which was used to refer to people who dug canals, which were once called “navigations.”
Red flare used for flagging purposes. Its sharp point is driven into the right-of-way and no following train may pass as long as it is burning, although on some roads it is permissible to stop, extinguish the fusee, and proceed with caution in automatic block-signal limits
four wheel driving, off roading, driving where there are no roads. ( More recently this term has also started to mean critisizing the US president George W. Bush, which has become internationally popular, and for good reason.) Bushie
A sheltered area outside a harbour where a ship can safely anchor, also known as a roadstead. Examples: "Royal Roads", "Roosevelt Roads".
n blacktop. The stuff that covers roads. Perhaps you’d like to hear some road-making history? Hmm? Or perhaps not. Perhaps you’re sitting in bed naked, waiting for your husband to finish in the shower. Perhaps you’re on a train in a strange foreign country, hoping that this stupid book was going to be much more of a tour guide than it turned out to be. Perhaps you’re having a shit. Well, bucko, whatever you’re doing you’re stuck now, and so you’re going to hear a little bit of road-making history. A long time ago, a Scotsman named John Loudon Macadam invented a way of surfacing roads with gravel, this coating being known as “Macadam” - a term also used in the U.S. “What happens when the road aged?,” I hear you say. Well, I’m so glad you asked. Unfortunately as the road aged the gravel tended to grind to dust and so it was coated with a layer of tar - this being “Tar-Macadam,” which was concatenated to tarmac. Somewhere in the mists of time the Americans ended up using this only to describe airport runways, but the Brits still use it to describe the road surface.
Short for the USN naval air station at Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. Recently it has been closed, but the memory of Canadian Sailors painting ship at that locale will live forever.
police set up by roadside to check on drink drivers.
Some old-time engineers preferred to work the water (operate the injector and watch the water glass or gauge cocks). On most roads the fireman now works the water
n streetcar; trolley. A device very much like a train except it generally runs on tracks built on top of normal roads and is often powered electrically by high-strung cables (I mean ones on poles, not ones of an excitable disposition). Trams are making something of a comeback in Europe generally, with new systems springing up in the U.K.
[from the scored cross on the tablets] amphetamines
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One who drives much; a coach driver.
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One who makes roads.
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A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country.
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In railroads, the bed or foundation on which the superstructure (ties, rails, etc.) rests; in common roads, the whole material laid in place and ready for travel.
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To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.
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Of or pertaining to roads; happening on roads.
v. i.
To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring.
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A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.
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A bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads rather than for the racing track.
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A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.
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Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling.
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The art of making roads or ways for traveling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc.
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Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.
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Having no ways or roads; pathless.
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An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like.
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A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads.
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Destitute of roads.
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Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.
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An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4.
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