by-road
or by·road
a side road.
Origin of by-road
1Words Nearby by-road
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How to use by-road in a sentence
Close under the Calton Hill there runs a certain narrow avenue, part street, part by-road.
Tales and Fantasies | Robert Louis StevensonEvery river which crossed the steppe would offer to them a tempting by-road leading off into the forests of Siberia or Russia.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | John M. TylerDown a by-road to his left a stream of haggard country people was pouring from the direction of the Marne.
The Marne | Edith WhartonWithout a word Agatha slowed down, turned up a by-road, and stopped.
Berry And Co. | Dornford YatesAs though to turn the subject, she indicated a buckboard which was coming down an intersecting by-road at crazy speed.
The Readjustment | Will Irwin
British Dictionary definitions for byroad
/ (ˈbaɪˌrəʊd) /
a secondary or side road
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