ˈroad-book
Also road book.
[road n. 4.]
1. A book exhibiting or describing the roads of a district or country. Also transf.
| 1798 Jane Austen Northang. Abb. vii, Morland pleaded the authority of road-books, innkeepers and mile-stones. 1806–7 J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) vi. 12 After starting on a very long journey.., discovering that you have left your road-book behind. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 311 These computations are strongly confirmed by the road books and maps of the seventeenth century. 1881 Times (weekly ed.) 25 Sept. 14/3, I am not writing a road-book or a river-book. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Jan. 80/2 The civil aviation section [of Jane's All the World's Aircraft] continues to act as a world-wide aviation ‘road-book’. |
2. A narrative of a journey by road. Also spec., a log-book kept by the driver of a commercial vehicle.
| 1882 Floyer Unexpl. Baluchistan 393 Ghulamshah set to work washing our flannel shirts, and I to writing up the road-book. 1939 ‘N. Blake’ Smiler with Knife xvii. 246 You sign my road-book, cock, or I'm not opening this van. |