macadamize
verb (used with object)
to pave by laying and compacting successive layers of broken stone, often with asphalt or hot tar.
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Rare, in these days, was the carriage, or stage-coach for the traveller; Roads, unmacadamized, making rude havoc of delicate springs.
From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Lydia Howard Sigourney