knight of the road
Britishnoun
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a tramp
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a commercial traveller
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a lorry driver
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obsolete a highwayman
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Suddenly though his jaw dropped and, replacing his battered headpiece, with double-handed indecent haste the knight of the road executed an incredibly nimble "right-about turn" and vanished behind the station-house.
From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Ralph S. Kendall
A tradition existed that the said family waggon had once been "stopped" thereabouts by some vizored knight of the road, and this memory confirmed my mother's disapproval of the purchase.
From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
I have, for the time being, assumed the habiliments of a knight of the road, for certain purposes of my own.
From The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale Or, camping and tramping for fun and health by Laura Lee Hope
Aye," he muttered sadly, more to himself than to me, "a true knight of the road with seven ballads written of me in Bristol and three in Bath.
From The O'Ruddy A Romance by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams
But the knight of the road was evidently very impatient.
From The Heart of Denise and Other Tales by S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
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