knight of the road

British  

noun

1. a tramp

2. a commercial traveller

3. a lorry driver

4. obsolete a highwayman

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Example Sentences

In their place was the unmistakable omnium gatherum of an accomplished knight of the road.

From The Twins of Table Mountain by Harte, Bret

Bailey being one day at an alehouse, not far from Moorfields, fell into the conversation of an Irishman, of a very gay alert temper perfectly suited to the humour of our knight of the road.

From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Hayward, Arthur L.

At its conclusion the breathless and perspiring knight of the road wearily took the back trail, and a vacant-faced "red-cap" came out to relieve him of his grip.

From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by Fanning, C. E. (Clara Elizabeth)

Why, what is he?—a trickster, a knight of the road.

From The Highwayman by Bailey, H. C. (Henry Christopher)

Ah, to be knight of the road and everlasting squire to the Goddess of Love!

From Truxton King A Story of Graustark by McCutcheon, George Barr