Outroad

Definitions

  • Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
    • n Outroad An excursion. "Outrodes by the ways of Judea."
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
    • n outroad An excursion, expedition, or foray: opposed to inroad.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
    • n Outroad owt′rōd (obs.) a foray into an enemy's country, a hostile attack—opp. to Inroad.
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Usage

In literature:

Still another assault, or invasive outroad, northward against the Russian Magazines, there also was; of which by and by.
"History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIX. (of XXI.) Frederick The Great--Friedrich Like to be Overwhelmed in The Seven-Years War--1759-1760" by Thomas Carlyle
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