Road /(rō)/

Road

n.
  1. A journey, or stage of a journey. [Obs.]
    With easy roads he came to Leicester.
  2. An inroad; an invasion; a raid. [Obs.]
  3. A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another.
    The most villainous house in all the London road.
  4. A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.
    Now strike your saile, ye jolly mariners, For we be come unto a quiet rode [road].
    My hat and wig will soon be here, They are upon the road.
    The highway robber -- road agent he is quaintly called.
    — The century.