outroad

English

Alternative forms

outrode

Noun

outroad (plural outroads)

(obsolete) An excursion.
- 1532, François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel:
  As he was speaking this, the perceived six hudred and threescore light horsemen, gallantly mounted, who made an outroad thither to see what ship it was that was newly arrived in the harbour, and came in a full gallop to take them if they had been able.
- 1612, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-errant Don Quixote of The Mancha:
  for it would be too great a cruelty if, contrary to all orders and decrees of death, he should go about to make show of him in Castile the old, where in good sooth he lieth within a sepulchre, laid all along, and unable to make a third journey and a new outroad.
- 1775, Robert Baillie, Letters and Journals, page 364:
  On a day, some miles above Knockfergus, near a creek where the Irish had a castle, Major Ballantine, with some few of our Scots horse, had an outroad, where they perceived a fellow land in a boat from a little ship within sight of shore.
(obsolete) A foray into an enemy's territory, especially a hostile attack.
- 1844, William Beattie, The Castles and Abbeys of England, page 331:
  The territory around this bay was held for a time by Keiani the Scot's sonnes, until they were driven out by Cuneda, the Cambro-Briton, and is now counted part of the inheritance of the Cutchy of Lancaster, byt the heires of Maurice of London, or De Londres, who, making an outroad hither out of Glamorganshire, after a dangerous war, made himself master hereof, and fortified old Kidwelly with a wall and castle to it, which now for very age is growen to decay, and standeth, as it were, forlet and forlorne;
- 1862, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, page 156:
  So that we have to sweep laboriously the Morawa-Taya Valleys; and undertake first one and then another outroad, or sharp swift sally, against those troublesome barbarians.
- 1908, Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard, Agathocles, page 103:
  On the other hand the outroad to Africa had a good prospect of success, if enough forces could be landed in the country .
A way out from a place or situation.
- 2005, Chris Gehman, Steve Reinke, The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema, page 237:
  Things have calmed down since then, and we've accepted fairly pragmatically that neither approach makes a lick of sense, that synthesis is the necessary outroad.
- 2008, K.J. Doughton, Metallica Unbound:
  The dark energy of metal music appeared as a seductive outroad from that island of discontent on which most teens in the early Eighties felt stranded-where one's hometown seemed like a stifling armpit of civilization.
- 2013, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Silence in Middle Eastern and Western Thought, page 180:
  Upon this outroad, however, yet another conceptual plateau arises from within the relaxed coil of ecstasy and madness, one that will consolidate all heretofore delineated aspects in a single sound: namely, that of laughter.
- 2013, Jack Hart, ... Life in a Northern Town:
  One of those patterns would be disrupted intentionally when a group of family campers and I dared ourselves, and thus met the dare, to walk down that same two-trek, through the tunnel of trees to the dump, then back out another outroad, a quarter mile on the other side.
- 2015, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Insurgent, Poet, Mystic, Sectarian, page 206:
  This is a winding task (to recruit the ungoverned), one that demarcates an ever-lengthening outroad to damnation.