DCHP-3

war-road

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a route followed by Indian war parties.

See: warpath(def. 1),war-track

Quotations

1800
It is the common war road of the Sioux at this season.
1826
A party less than Fifty could not trap with safety, it being in the vicinity of the great War road in fact of all the War tribes.
1858
The "War-road" near the Elbow of the South Branch of the Saskatchewan, on the flanks of the Grand Coteau, [is that] of the Blackfeet and Plains Cree.