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feeder road

American  

noun

  1. a secondary road used to bring traffic to a major road.


Etymology

Origin of feeder road

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

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It was the only one, just beside the gas stations and the feeder road and the taqueria.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 5, 2018

The dog had dragged the skull from an overgrown nearby oil field on Calder, a deserted I-45 feeder road, and brought it home to show the couple’s toddler.

From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2018

I can see no light in the immediate distance other than the yellow glow of Wawa’s iconic Canada goose sign, which illuminates the cab of an 18-wheeler parked on a nearby feeder road.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2018

Six passengers — a couple from Taiwan, two women from New Zealand, a man from Chicago and me — clambered in to head 73 miles up the Elliott Highway, the feeder road to the Dalton.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2016

But there was nothing to do but to take the feeder road to the left, because the devil we could see was more dangerous than the devil we couldn't.

From Highways in Hiding by Smith, George Oliver