macadam

Definitions

1. The surface of a road consisting of layers of crushed stone (usually tar-coated for modern traffic).
   uncountable
2. A surname, an alternative form of MacAdam.
3. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
4. Any road or street.
   US, countable, dated

Equivalents

Examples

“This narrow-gauge line had suffered the same fate as that between Schull and Skibbereen, with the track taken up except where it runs through one of the town streets and is embedded in the macadam.”

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