‘From a hilltop in a silent residential quarter, the vigil filed down to the junction where the main road reopens - but only as far as the roadblock five hundred yards away.’.‘Later, after Hass exposed the situation in an article for the paper, the army returns the roadblock to its original location.’.‘They explained to the cabbie, who at one point talked us through a roadblock, that I was looking for an American and the American wasn't at home.’.‘There is a roadblock somewhere further ahead and the convoy stalls for the night.’.‘Policeman can lose sight of you as you drive through their roadblock, and criminals on foot don't actually come looking for you as a rule.’.‘Setting himself up as a roadblock, Don Quijote demands that they identify and explain themselves.’.
‘The next day they called a general strike, and roadblocks appeared everywhere.’.‘Attempts to depart are met with roadblocks and gangs of confrontational junk cars.’.‘The traditional teachers in the school lash out at her modern ways, gangs roam the streets, and roadblocks prevent travel outside of the area.’.‘Our car slows down for traffic, and Daddy says, ‘It's a roadblock, see the cops way up there?’’.‘The mixture of fear and exhilaration he feels when passing through a police roadblock isn't logical, but it is completely understandable.’.‘Mining villages are ringed with officers, police roadblocks established, non-police movements restricted.’.‘That meant having to hide the cameras to capture footage of the police and military roadblocks that are a common sight across Mexico.’.Old English had radwerig "weary of traveling. Road map is from 1786 road trip is by 1950, originally of baseball teams. Road hog "one who is objectionable on the road" is attested from 1886 road rage is by 1988. Road test (n.) of a vehicle's performance is by 1906 as a verb from 1937. The meaning "narrow stretch of sheltered water near shore where ships can lie at anchor" is from early 14c.
"The late appearance of this sense makes its development from sense 1 somewhat obscure," according to OED, which however finds similar evolutions in Flemish and Frisian words. In Middle English it was still, "a riding, a journey on horseback a mounted raid " the sense of "an open passage or way for traveling between two places" is recorded from 1590s, and the older senses now are obsolete. Middle English rode, from Old English rad "riding expedition, journey, hostile incursion," from Proto-Germanic *raido (source also of Old Frisian red "ride," Old Saxon reda, Middle Dutch rede, Old High German reita "foray, raid"), from PIE *reidh- "to ride" (see ride (v.)).
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