Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who supervises roads and sees to their being kept in good order.
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Examples
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Colonel thought so well of himself and his wife, that no doubt he considered her the grandest lady in the room; and she who remembered him a road-surveyor at a guinea a day!
The Virginians 2006
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She is as much needed as a road-surveyor, surely as valuable as hog-reeve or pound-keeper.
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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A road-surveyor was regarded as having been lukewarm, and accordingly put on the retired list.
The Modern Regime, Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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Could not Sir George Warrington have danced with my Lady Dunmore or her daughters, or with anybody but Mrs. Washington; to be sure the Colonel thought so well of himself and his wife, that no doubt he considered her the grandest lady in the room; and she who remembered him a road-surveyor at a guinea a day!
The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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If a citizen refuses to perform the work which has been assigned to him upon a road, the road-surveyor may prosecute him, and he receives half the penalty for himself.
American Institutions and Their Influence Alexis de Tocqueville 1832
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