A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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A few inches more metalling, perhaps, another generation of menders, and so on.
From Aliens by William McFee
Added to these machines was one of Blake's stone-crushers to break stone of various gauges for metalling the roads of the town.
From Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 by John Frederick Adolphus McNair
The first rise of sandy yellow loam showed the normal Gold Coast metalling of iron-stone and quartz-gravel, thinly spread with water-rounded pebbles.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
It is the best ground of all, especially where the yellow or brown sands are overlaid by hard gravel, or by a natural metalling of trap and other stones.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
It is not now recognisable as a road, but the steep banks at each side of it, and some bluish metalling in the shell holes, show that one once ran there.
From The Old Front Line by John Masefield
