Macadamize
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To cover (a road) with macadam (small, broken stones) so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.
"Lo there what mix’d conditions run! The orphan lad; the widow’s son; And Fortune’s favour’d care— The wealthy born, for whom she hath Mac-Adamized the future path— The Nabob’s pamper’d heir!"
- 2 surface with macadam wordnet
Example
More examples"Lo there what mix’d conditions run! The orphan lad; the widow’s son; And Fortune’s favour’d care— The wealthy born, for whom she hath Mac-Adamized the future path— The Nabob’s pamper’d heir!"
Etymology
From macadam + -ize, after Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam who pioneered this method of road construction around 1820.