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noun

Roadster n.

(Naut.) A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.

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."

A bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads rather than for the racing track.

One who drives much; a coach driver. (Eng.)

A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country. (Eng. Slang.)

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Etymology of 'Roadster'

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"Roadster" Quotes from Famous Books

... roadster to the door, three hours later. And Emily appreciated that Lestrange was discreet as well as compelling, when she found the black-eyed young mechanician was detailed to accompany Dick's maiden trips; which duty ...

— The Flying Mercury • Eleanor M. Ingram

... riding with him. He had his roadster. I don't see what he takes her around so much for. ...

— Polly and the Princess • Emma C. Dowd

... before he caught sight of a mauve suit on the broad steps. Looking from above he could be less sure than when she stood at the desk. But the girl halted at the foot of the steps and standing by a red roadster turned to look up at the library building. The sun fell full upon her upturned face. The distance was one easily to be spanned by eyes as keen as his. Thompson was no longer uncertain. He was suddenly, ...

— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... his shoulders were dabbled; and now it behooved him to be careful how he sucked the earthy-flavored water, so as to keep time with the heaving of his barrel. In a word, he was drinking as if he would burst—as his hostler at home often told him—but the clever old roadster knew better than that, and timing it well between snorts and coughs, was tightening his girths with ...

— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... bathchair with slow revolutions of its wheels as far as the corner of the North Circular road opposite Mr Gavin Low's place of business where she had remained for a certain time scanning through his onelensed binocular fieldglasses unrecognisable citizens on tramcars, roadster bicycles equipped with inflated pneumatic tyres, hackney carriages, tandems, private and hired landaus, dogcarts, ponytraps and brakes passing from the city to the Phoenix Park ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... go," stated Van Reypen, rising from the table. "I daresay you're right, Chick. May I take the little roadster, Bill, and whiz over there and bring ...

— Patty and Azalea • Carolyn Wells

... to do me a favor. That's the size of it. The point is this: I was told to take Miss Langdon and the Misses Houston, to Cedarcrest, in my White Steamer. I have just discovered that the car is temporarily out of commission, and so I am reduced to the necessity of using my roadster. I came down here to ask you to take the Houston ...

— The Last Woman • Ross Beeckman

... only thought to come down in the motor yourself, sir——" the chauffeur reproached him. The truth was that Peter hadn't a car of his own and Gilmore knew it. There was an electric runabout which had gone down to Bloombury with Ellen, and a serviceable roadster which was part of the office equipment, but the rich Mr. Weatheral had never taken the pains to own a private car. Now, as he hastily drew out his watch, it occurred to him that Lessing's chauffeur was a fellow of more perspicuity ...

— The Lovely Lady • Mary Austin

... exception of two instances. Linda had shown both temper and determination at the proposal to dismantle the library and dispose of the cars. She had told Eileen that she might take the touring car and do as she pleased with it. For her share she wanted her father's roadster, and she meant to have it. She took the same firm stand concerning the Library. With the rest of the house Eileen might do as she would. The library was to remain absolutely untouched and what it contained was Linda's. To this Eileen had agreed, but so far Linda had been content ...

— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter

Words linked to "Roadster" : carriage, machine, motorcar, rig, buggy, rumble seat, car, two-seater, runabout, auto