SuaviloquyToday’s word

highroad

Highroad, n.

A highway; a much travele

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for highroad; he lists it under way.

Where he writes about it:

A road may be private; a highway or highroad is public, highway being a specific name for a road legally set apart for the use of the public forever; a highway may be over water as well as over land. — from way