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ˈroad-book
Also road book.
[road n. 4.]
1. A book exhibiting or describing the roads of a district or country. Also transf.
1798Jane Austen Northang. Abb. vii, Morland pleaded the authority of road-books, innkeepers and mile-stones. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) vi. 12 After starting on a very long journey.., discovering that you have left your road-book behind. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 311 These computations are strongly confirmed by the road books and maps of the seventeenth century. 1881Times (weekly ed.) 25 Sept. 14/3, I am not writing a road-book or a river-book. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Jan. 80/2 The civil aviation section [of Jane's All the World's Aircraft] continues to act as a world-wide aviation ‘road-book’.
2. A narrative of a journey by road. Also spec., a log-book kept by the driver of a commercial vehicle.
1882Floyer Unexpl. Baluchistan 393 Ghulamshah set to work washing our flannel shirts, and I to writing up the road-book. 1939‘N. Blake’ Smiler with Knife xvii. 246 You sign my road-book, cock, or I'm not opening this van. |
