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metalled

/ ˈmɛtəld /

adjective

  1. made or mended with road metal

  2. fitted or covered with metal

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The vice-president promised the small and subdued crowd free healthcare, a metalled road, better schools and sanitation.

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Today we talk about capital cities and forums, as well as structures such as amphitheatres, basilicas, metalled roads, pavements and multi-storey apartment blocks because of the idea of the city that Rome bequeathed us.

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Entire sections of metalled road had ceased to exist, dug up to a metre's depth.

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Most of the tunnel is still without the shotcrete lining, retaining walls or a metalled road.

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Down in the depths of the holloway, you could see neither metalled roads nor telegraph poles, nor even the most distant glimpses of the outsized golf balls of the early warning radar up on Fylingdales.

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