DCHP-2

side-road DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1 n.
a secondary road, often unpaved, leading to a main highway.
- 1854 The municipalities have taxed themselves too heavily for the main road . . . to be able to build also the side roads.
- 1931 Uncle Pippin . . . drove away beside his meek white horse down the narrow, leisurely red side-road. . . .
- 1959 Now we go round by Tinchers', take the side road and go east two miles, then back to the correction line where it hits the Candy place.
2 n.
in Ontario, a road built along the side boundaries of a concession (def. 2) at right angles to a concession road.
See also: concession (def. 2) concession road sideline (def. 2)
- 1873 To Joseph Whaley for pine timber for culvert on first side road, $1.00.
- 1947 . . . I carried the big shelf a long mile from the ploughed side-road, down the drifted concession line to Moonstone creek.
- 1966 . . . the best catches [were] at Claremont ... Bruce's Mill (between Highway 7, and Gormley sideroad in Markham Township) and the Heart Lake area near Brampton.