road metal

American  

noun

British.

1. broken stone, cinders, etc., used for making roads.

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road metal British  

noun

1. crushed rock, broken stone, etc, used to construct a road

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Etymology

Origin of road metal

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

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road metal

I had a medium-brown driveway that used chert road metal from the Meramec River region in Missouri.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

All headmen and priests concerned in last September's affair worked one month each, supplying road metal from their own houses.

From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard

ThePg 187 paths were made of Turkish tombstones, which were always used in Uskub for road metal.

From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Gordon, Cora

The remains of the saint's ancient chapel, said to have been founded there by Canute, were used for road metal in 1837.

From A Calendar of Scottish Saints by Barrett, Michael

Beside the road always were the little heaps of road metal, little heaps of stone, and always the engineers stood ready to refill the holes that might be made by the incoming shells.

From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by White, William Allen