Definition of Roadworthy

1. Adjective. Being able to be driven, or suitable for driving, on the open road. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Roadworthy

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roadworthy

roadsteads
roadster
roadsters
roadstone
roadstones
roadwarrior
roadwarriors
roadway
roadways
roadwork
roadworker
roadworkers
roadworks
roadworn
roadworthiness
roadworthy (current term)
roaldite
roamable
roamed
roamer
roamers
roamin'
roaming
roaming master
roaming masters
roamings
roams
roan
roan antelope

Literary usage of Roadworthy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"... carrier responsible irrespective of his negligence upon the ground that he is absolutely bound to furnish a roadworthy vehicle or appliance.3 Meier v. ..."

2. Digest of the Lawyers' Reports, Annotated: (cited "L. R. A.") Volumes I. to (1894)
"Whether a particular vehicle is unsuitable and not roadworthy because unwieldy and unmanageable is a question for the jury. ..."

3. Manual of Law and Forms: A Practical Hand-book of the Law and Business Forms by Henry Allyn Haigh (1887)
"Vehicles must be roadworthy. 11. Stopping by the Roadside. 12. Leaving Horses Untied. Roads. 23. Liability for Failure to Repair. 13. Fractious Horses. 24. ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"... whether such bales showing white splotches were calculated to frighten an ordinary roadworthy horse, and whether such negligence constituted the ..."

5. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1873)
"But this case seems not to have gone upon the ground of any absolute warranty on the part of the carrier that his vehicles were in fact roadworthy and fit ..."

6. Wrongs and Their Remedies: A Treatise on the Law of Torts by Charles Greenstreet Addison, Francis Stafford Pipe Wolferstan, James M. Dudley, Edwin Baylies (1876)
"When the carriage is by railway, the railway company is bound to keep the railway itself in good traveling order, and fit for use, and to provide roadworthy ..."

7. Law of Indian Railways and Common Carriers by Walter Gordon Macpherson (1880)
"In other terms, they are bound to provide roadworthy vehicles suitable to the safe transportation of the passengers. In this respect there does not seem to ..."

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