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road noun   A way, path, route.

1826 Royall Sketches 58 For get out of the way, they say get out of the road: Road is universally used for way, “Put them cheers (chairs), out of the road.” 1864 Reese CW Letters (April 3) this tena has giv mee more un Easness than any thing that has Cum my Rode senc I left home. 1941 Stuart Men of Mts 298 No children on the road are there?1985 Irwin Alex Stewart 265 A great big old rat had got down in my basement and was eating up my ‘taters. I set me a steel trap in his road, where he went in and out. 

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