outroads

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
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
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