Definitions
an encroachment or intrusion
Word origin
The noun is derived from in + road (“(obsolete) act of riding on horseback; hostile ride against a particular area, raid”).
Used in a sentence
“[A] child knowing the heate of fire, will as readely iudge of the perrill, as the wiſeſt Senatour, of the inroad of a borderer, or the politick captaine, of the vnequall encoũter with his enimy, […]”
“[T]he Britains, left to ſhift for themſelves, and daily haraſſed by cruel Inroads from the Picts, were forced to call in the Saxons for their Defence; […]”
“The brave and active Conſtantius delivered Gaul from a very furious inroad of the Alemanni; and his victories of Langres and Vindoniſſa appear to have been actions of conſiderable danger and merit.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Damaging advance”6 letters
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