roadbed

English

Etymology

From road +‎ bed.

Noun

roadbed (plural roadbeds)

1. The prepared location for a road, including its foundation.
2. A trackbed. holonym ▼quotations ▼

   Holonym: right of way

   • 1960 February, “Swansea & Mumbles closure”, in Trains Illustrated, page 95:

     The roadbed, much of it fringing Swansea Bay, has been given free to the local authorities.

References

• “roadbed”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• aborded, boarded, deboard