by-road

or by·road

[ bahy-rohd ]

noun

1. a side road.

Word History and Origins

Origin of by-road¹

First recorded in 1665–75; by- + road

Example Sentences

Close under the Calton Hill there runs a certain narrow avenue, part street, part by-road.

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Every river which crossed the steppe would offer to them a tempting by-road leading off into the forests of Siberia or Russia.

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Down a by-road to his left a stream of haggard country people was pouring from the direction of the Marne.

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Without a word Agatha slowed down, turned up a by-road, and stopped.

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As though to turn the subject, she indicated a buckboard which was coming down an intersecting by-road at crazy speed.

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