Citations:roadstead


 * 1749 — Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Volume 27, Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library, 527
 * ... a colony with which we cannot communicate by sea, which has not and cannot have any port or roadstead that can be entered by a twelve gun sloop.


 * 1848 — John Craig. A New Universal Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, J. Gilbert, 583
 * A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore, sometimes called a roadstead.