macadamize
Americanverb (used with object)
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In the dense forest, where sunshine never comes, rocks, mud, and fallen trees in rapid alternation macadamize the path, save where it turns up the bed of a babbling brook.
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton
The continent was crossed, the Gulf reached, and the road indicated by the hardy pioneers, which their successors will find it comparatively easy to level and macadamize.
From Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia by William John Wills
They exerted great influence in inducing communities to macadamize roads, for which the passing of the stage-coach and the spread of railroads had diminished the demand.
From History of the United States, Volume 6 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews
Unless changes are made in the location of the roads in many parts of this country it would be worse than folly to macadamize them.
From The Future of Road-making in America by Archer Bulter Hulbert
Funds were set aside by the State Highway Commission in 1917 to macadamize the 40 mile section of Old Oregon Trail from Pendleton west to the Morrow County line.
From Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 by S. Benson
The 71st joined the retreat, still encumbered with its guns, and headed along the macadamized Warrenton turnpike – now Route 29 – toward Centreville, Burgess said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2021
The 71st joined the retreat, still encumbered with its guns, and headed along the macadamized Warrenton turnpike — now Route 29 — toward Centreville, Burgess said.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2021
Princeton University historian James M. McPherson writes that before all-weather macadamized roads, it cost the same to move a ton of goods 30 miles inland as it cost to bring a ton across the Atlantic.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2018
The streets of the Anglo-Hawaiian capital are clean and all admirably macadamized, the material employed for the purpose being coral, black lava, stone, and sand.
From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou
Good bridle-tracks exist in all the larger islands, and there are some macadamized roads, principally in Viti Levu.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
It is a pity that Government should spend so much in macadamizing roads, when cutcher-roads answer just as well for all the wants of native traffic.
From A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home by Laurence Oliphant
During 1917 and 1918 the State Highway Department expended the sum of $46,997.79, cooperating with the County in the construction of 4.2 miles of grading and macadamizing between Fossil and the Gilliam County Line.
From Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 by S. Benson
Her equestrian experience previously had been limited to steady macadamizing on the roads.
From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
In macadamizing a stray stone in one of his periodical puddings, I once lost a tooth, and with it an heiress of some reputation.
From A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others by Julia Thompson von Stosch Schayer
Very much more sumptuous than ours, their system of road-making consists in upholstering with silk instead of macadamizing.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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