waysider

plural waysiders

1. A person or thing found by the wayside.

   The charioteer says to a waysider: "How far is it to Elisha's house?"

   1888, Thomas De Witt Talmage, Social Dynamite; Or, The Wickedness of Modern Society, page 536

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   Erysimum cheiranthoides and Sinapis nigra grow in cornfields here as everywhere else; although some writer in the 'Phytologist' says it, S. nigra, is not a field plant but a waysider.

   1861, Alexander Irvine, The Phytologist: A Botanical Journal, volumes 5-6, page 281

   At the other end of the hall was what I took for the dining room. A waysider had recently spent the night.

   1991, Tom Ireland, Birds of Sorrow, page 97