Dictionary entry

Macadamize

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mac‐ad″am‐ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Macadamized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Macadamizing.] [From John Loudon McAdam, who introduced the process into Great Britain in 1816.] To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.