outroad

An excursion.

As he was speaking this, the perceived six hudred and threescore light horsemen, gallantly mounted, who made an outroad thither to see what ship it was that was newly arrived in the harbour, and came in a full gallop to take them if they had been able.

for it would be too great a cruelty if, contrary to all orders and decrees of death, he should go about to make show of him in Castile the old, where in good sooth he lieth within a sepulchre, laid all along, and unable to make a third journey and a new outroad.

A foray into an enemy's territory, especially a hostile attack.

The territory around this bay was held for a time by Keiani the Scot's sonnes, until they were driven out by Cuneda, the Cambro-Briton, and is now counted part of the inheritance of the Cutchy of Lancaster, byt the heires of Maurice of London, or De Londres, who, making an outroad hither out of Glamorganshire, after a dangerous war, made himself master hereof, and fortified old Kidwelly with a wall and castle to it, which now for very age is growen to decay, and standeth, as it were, forlet and forlorne;

So that we have to sweep laboriously the Morawa-Taya Valleys; and undertake first one and then another outroad, or sharp swift sally, against those troublesome barbarians.

A way out from a place or situation.

Things have calmed down since then, and we've accepted fairly pragmatically that neither approach makes a lick of sense, that synthesis is the necessary outroad.

The dark energy of metal music appeared as a seductive outroad from that island of discontent on which most teens in the early Eighties felt stranded-where one's hometown seemed like a stifling armpit of civilization.