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Someone who or something that builds roads.
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The really acute roadmaker will be as shy of having clay in the interstices of his stone work as the vigilant mason is of having clay in a brick or stone wall.
In France every freight and market wagon is a roadmaker.
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Hannibal was a roadmaker, Cromwell was a roadmaker, Napoleon was a roadmaker.
"Thank you for the compliment, your Reverence," he replied, construing the delicate innuendo in a favourable sense' "sure every one, high and low, knows Andy Spain, the roadmaker, after his forty years on the highway, since I was a gossoon helpin' my father, who was a roadmaker before me. Bedad, I am a well-known character, and no mistake."
The roadmaker has his dreams and visions as well as the poet, and he expresses them in broken stones.
An innovator; a trailblazer; a pioneer.
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In what way and to what extent may Gresham be looked upon as a roadmaker?
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Who have been the roadmakers? The men and women who, by their intellect or character or example ... have prepared the way for human progress. They are the pioneers.
Among other troublesome questions, it is difficult to make up your mind exactly what can be the qualities which distinguish a "roadmaker" from an ordinary writer. Would you call Shelley a '"roadmaker," " or Donne?