Definition of Main road

1. Noun. A major road for any form of motor transport.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Main Road

main entry word
main file
main gauche
main group
main group element
main group elements
main house
main houses
main line
main lines
main man
main memory
main men
main office
main road (current term)
main rotor
main sequence
main sheet
main stage
main street
main succulente
main verb
main yard
mainboard
mainboards
mainboom
mainbooms
mainbrace
mainbraces

Literary usage of Main road

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by New Hampshire Railroad Commissioners (1902)
"Also commencing at an iron pin in the ground opposite the junction of said main road from Stratham to Newmarket and said new road, and to connect there with ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"main road An English author writes a short story about two unemployed men 'on ... Now, they would almost sooner have found a main road than a plate of beef. ..."

3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1863)
"On Saturday the thirteenth, we again started, leaving the second main road (the one I was on) to the right, and leaving at this intersection the Forty-sixth ..."

4. A History of the City of Brooklyn: Including the Old Town and Village of by Henry Reed Stiles (1867)
"Charles, Minister of the Second Baptist Church of New York, main road. ... Sharp, Jacob, Judge of the County Sharp, Jacob, jun., Clerk of ditto, main road. ..."

5. Annual Report by New Hampshire Railroad Commissioners (1864)
"Maximum grade with its length in main road,48 48-100 feet per mile—3 44-150 miles. Average grade por mile in main road. Total rise and fall in main road, ..."

6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1850)
"... weight of rail pur yard in main road ; weight of rail per yard in branch road, specify the different weights per yard ; maximum grade, with its length, ..."

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