"roadmaker" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From road + maker.",
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          "ref": "1891, Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt, A Move for Better Roads, page 115:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1901, Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor on the Canals of New York, page 129:",
          "text": "In France every freight and market wagon is a roadmaker.",
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          "ref": "1912, Andrew Broder, “Address”, in Sessional Papers of the Ontario Legislative Assembly, volume 44, number 5, page 10:",
          "text": "Hannibal was a roadmaker, Cromwell was a roadmaker, Napoleon was a roadmaker.",
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          "ref": "1912, Joseph Guinan, The Curate of Kilcloon, page 90:",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
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          "ref": "1918, Thomas Tiplady, The Soul of the Soldier: Sketches from the Western Battlefront, page 30:",
          "text": "The roadmaker has his dreams and visions as well as the poet, and he expresses them in broken stones.",
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        "Someone who or something that builds roads."
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          "ref": "1925, Frank Reyner Salter, Sir Thomas Gresham (1518-1579), page 166:",
          "text": "In what way and to what extent may Gresham be looked upon as a roadmaker?",
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          "ref": "1925, The Scottish Educational Journal - Volume 8, page 41:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1927, “Reviews: Thomas Carlyle, by Mary Agnes Hamilton”, in Education Outlook, volume 79, page 297:",
          "text": "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?",
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        "An innovator; a trailblazer; a pioneer."
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        "(figurative) An innovator; a trailblazer; a pioneer."
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1901, Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor on the Canals of New York, page 129:",
          "text": "In France every freight and market wagon is a roadmaker.",
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          "text": "\"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.\"",
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          "text": "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.",
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        },
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