macadam
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8.6
- noun
- /məˈkædəm/
- Archaic
:
macadam
- Bicycles raced down the macadam path, enjoying the smooth ride through the neighborhood.
Examples
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But the others get out and walk across to where the road swells into a macadam shelf, like a ship's deck.
Fiction book (1990) -
He'd come to rest in a moist den of pine on a twisty black macadam road, looking out over Puget Sound.
Fiction book (2000) -
We were standing around on the macadam just before six.
Fiction book (1992) -
The road was good for a while, but in half a mile the macadam ended and we were on a dirt track.
Fiction book (2001) -
Dressed at last, still without speaking, they filed out of the hut and down the macadam path toward the mess hall.
Fiction book (1990) -
A mile or two into the country, I stopped the car and parked it on a narrow beam of crumbling macadam.
Fiction book (2000) -
The 404th had laid the bed for the wide strip of macadam that ran from Lhasa, beyond the western hills, into Jade Spring Camp.
Fiction book (2001) -
They're wearing swimming suits and picking their way gingerly down the macadam in their bare feet.
Fiction book (2002) -
Heat from the rising sun rebounded from the macadam, and a strong glare was reflected from row upon row of automobile rooftops and windshields.
Fiction book (1994) -
The construction crew finished laying macadam on the new road near the park.
Synonyms
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3.0
Small pieces of rock made by crushing larger stones and used for paths and building
Small broken stones that people use to make or fix roads
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Macadam comes from the name of a Scottish road builder, McAdam, who made roads by putting layers of small broken stones and pressing them down. So macadam is the name for that kind of 'pavement' or the stones used to make it.