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Road-agent

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A highwayman in the mountain districts of North America.

“Road-agent is the name applied in the mountains to a ruffian who has given up honest work in the store, in the mine, in the ranch, for the perils and profits of the highway.”—W. Hepworth Dixon: New America, i. 14.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Rising in the Air
Rivals
River Demon or River Horse
River of Paradise
River Flowing from the Ocean Inland
Rivers
Roach
Road
Road or Roadstead
Road-agent
Roads
Roan
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Roarer
Roaring Boys or Roarers
Roaring Forties (The)
Roaring Game (The)
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Roast
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