Definition of "road-house" [road-house]

• An inn or tavern on the roadside, used as a place of refreshment by those driving along the road. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The road-house was only moderately full; they got a table in a corner and ordered ham and eggs and beer."
• "He knew the road-house at the entrance to the town, though he had never been there."
• "He had managed a road-house near London, on the Great West Road, and he had travelled in haberdashery."