outroad

Noun

outroad (plural outroads)

1. (obsolete) An excursion.
   • 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.1532, François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
   • 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.1612, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-errant Don Quixote of The Mancha
2. (obsolete) A foray into an enemy's territory, especially a hostile attack.
   • 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...1844, William Beattie, The Castles and Abbeys of England, page 331
   • 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.1862, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, page 156
3. A way out from a place or situation.
   • 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.2005, Chris Gehman, Steve Reinke, The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema, page 237
   • 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.2008, K.J. Doughton, Metallica Unbound