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Sullage :: Sullage (n.) Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage.

Pad :: Pad (n.) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad.

Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel..

Padder :: Padder (n.) A highwayman; a footpad.

Streetwalker :: Street (a.) Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses..

Viewer :: Viewer (n.) A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same..

Overseer :: Overseer (n.) One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways..

Saddle :: Saddle (v. t.) Hence: To fix as a charge or burden upon; to load; to encumber; as, to saddle a town with the expense of bridges and highways..

Wide :: Wide (superl.) Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry..

Highwayman :: Highwayman (n.) One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.

Ramp :: Ramp (n.) A highwayman; a robber.

Highway :: Highway (n.) A road or way open to the use of the public; a main road or thoroughfare.

Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways..

Toll :: Toll (n.) A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like..

Forestall :: Forestall (v. t.) To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market..

Footpad :: Footpad (n.) A highwayman or robber on foot.

Issue :: Issue (v. i.) To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway..

Purpresture :: Purpresture (n.) Wrongful encroachment upon another's property; esp., any encroachment upon, or inclosure of, that which should be common or public, as highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc..

Highwaymen :: Highwaymen (pl. ) of Highwayma.

Pad :: Pad (n.) The act of robbing on the highway.

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