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
Example Sentences
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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
How do you fancy me as a knight of the road?
From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough
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
Why, what is he?—a trickster, a knight of the road.
From The Highwayman by H. C. (Henry Christopher) Bailey
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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