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Roadster   /rˈoʊdstər/   Listen
noun
Roadster  n.  
1.
(Naut.) A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.
2.
A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads. "A sound, swift, well-fed hunter and roadster."
3.
A bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads rather than for the racing track.
4.
One who drives much; a coach driver. (Eng.)
5.
A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country. (Eng. Slang.)





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"Roadster" Quotes from Famous Books



... drawn by two and occasionally by four old fat horses, and driven by a jolly old coachman, in which his old lady and his old maiden sister ride; for he seldom gets into it himself, thinking it a thing fit only for women and children, preferring infinitely the back of Jack, his old roadster. ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 • Various
... description of the missing man, a fairly prosperous banker who had been seen four days previously driving through Keegan in a small roadster, and one of the girl, who was in the car with him. It told that the banker and his daughter were last seen by a farmer named Willetts who lived in a shack on the East Keegan road, fleeing before a bad thunder storm. He believed the pair were ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 • Various
... "If no roadster is nigh, you may," said I, "and I will do my best to understand you. Belle, I will now give ...
— Isopel Berners - The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 • George Borrow
... Johnny always sprang up from the earth at the very instant his girls needed him, he came up the winding drive in his red roadster. They hailed him. He brought the ...
— Highacres • Jane Abbott
... I've no patience to listen any longer. You called me roadster varmint. Well, let it be so. On the road I was born and on the road I was picked from my dead mother's side, and I count as 'tis on the road as I shall breathe my last. But for all that, I'll not have road dirt flung on me by no one. For, roadsters varmint though I be, there be things ...
— Six Plays • Florence Henrietta Darwin


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