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Roadbed

noun
1.
A bed supporting a road.





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"Roadbed" Quotes from Famous Books



... messes! Those Turks may not know how to build a decent railroad, but believe me they're stars at wrecking a line thoroughly! At Mustapha they'd ripped up the rails, burned the ties, and blown great holes in the roadbed with dynamite. But I soon had a dozen grading gangs at work on that stretch, and new bridges started, and then I pushed on alone to ...
— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford
... street car, though the air was stifling, and large, heedless grown-ups crushed him with each jolt of the uneven roadbed, ...
— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely


Words linked to "Roadbed" :   bed, traffic island, safety isle, safety island, route, safety zone, road


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