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Macadamize

verb

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Verb
  1. 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. 2
    surface with macadam wordnet

Etymology

From macadam + -ize, after Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam who pioneered this method of road construction around 1820.

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