Macadams [noun]

Rubber tires do not slip on good macadam roads and during our tour it was necessary to use chains on the wheels only a few times.

The name macadam is often used now to denote the material used in making roads.

Mr. Gano stopped meditatively, and struck his blackthorn into the gray "MacAdam" powder.

She was put together skew-geed an' one side of her was so out of geer that she couldn't run straight even on a macadam road.

The car raced along the road, crossed a macadam highway, went four blocks and pulled to a stop.

Macadam had yielded to asphalt, and now asphalt largely gave place to the wood pavement.

Before Macadam and Telford appeared upon the scene, the office of road-surveyor was very generally looked down upon.

He died, aged ninety-three, in 1810, five years before Macadam and Telford began their work upon the roads.

A greater speed was attained when the roads began to be reorganised by Telford and Macadam.

He was asleep when the army lorry roared by and then stopped down the road, brakes screeching, rubber biting into macadam.