Crossword-Solution: ROADING 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Don't you think we could spot any of the ordinary kinds of cross-roading? This is TK, and it has real voltage.

The word "roding" is spelt "roading" by Newton, who thus gives the preference to the Anglo-Saxon description of the aërial tracks followed by the bird, over the alternative derivation from the French "roder," which means to wander.

Grouse run so much, both when they are pairing, and after the first flight of the young pack, that a dog broken on them has necessarily great practice in "roading,"--"roading," too, with the nose carried high to avoid strong heather--a valuable instructor,--whereas the dog broken on partridge often becomes impatient, and breaks away when he first finds grouse.

Independently, however, of want of pace and practice in roading, it never would be fair to take a dog direct from the Lowlands to contend on the Highlands with one habituated to the latter,--and _vice versâ_, for the stranger would always be placed to great disadvantage.

You may have seen an old fellow, instead of cautiously "roading" and "pointing dead," rush forward and seize an unfortunate winged bird, while it was making the best use of its legs after the flight of the rest of the covey--some peculiarity in the scent emitted having probably betrayed to the dog's _practised_ nose that the bird was injured.