Metalling

Quick meaning: Metalling is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of metal.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of metal.

More Meanings

1. A road surface, especially one of gravel (but sometimes with reference to macadam, tarmacadam, or asphalt concrete).
2. The process or an instance of installing such a surface; paving.

Example Sentences

[Footnote 32] According to the French map of the Levant, laid in 1925, before the metalling of the roads.

The Roman street had seven successive metallings. The latest metallings were contemporary with the tile works.

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.

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 roads was good, but only because the Division had been holding a front so wide, which made the traffic upon them relatively light.

Word Forms

• metallings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include macadamization, macadam, matting, matt, mettle, metage.

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