road metal
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of road metal
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
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I had a medium-brown driveway that used chert road metal from the Meramec River region in Missouri.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
These were heterodox opinions, indeed, which South-eastern London could only receive with a strenuous counterblast of orthodox brickbats and sound Anglican road metal.
From Strange Stories by Allen, Grant
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 stones have been taken for road metal, the earth to lay on the land.
From The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by Hughes, J. Cecil
They have then only to remove the top surface of road metal and the concrete cover in order to expose the pipe and get at the breach.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various
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