metalling

A road surface, especially one of gravel (but sometimes with reference to macadam, tarmacadam, or asphalt concrete).

Noun

A road surface, especially one of gravel (but sometimes with reference to macadam, tarmacadam, or asphalt concrete).
- And I did do jobs like collecting acorns which we fed to the pigs, mixed with other things. And I also picked stones off the fields which was done in those times, stones as metalling for the roads. - 1971, George Ewart...
- Almora, April 1 — Almora District Magistrate DS Garbyal has expressed his annoyance at the poor quality of work executed by the personnel of the Public Works Department (PWD) in the district. […] In a letter addressed...
Coordinate Terms: pavement
The process or an instance of installing such a surface; paving.
- One of the most important tasks was the metalling of the roads, and the dumping of metal beside them in parts where it was impossible to lay it, in order that work might commence with the assault. The surface of the...
- [Footnote 32] According to the French map of the Levant, laid in 1925, before the metalling of the roads. - 1964, J.M. Fiey, “The Iraqi section of the Abbassid Road Mosul—Nisibin”, in Iraq, volume 26, number 2, →DOI,...
- The Roman street had seven successive metallings. The latest metallings were contemporary with the tile works. - 1979, The Antiquaries Journal, volume 58, page 106: