McAdamise

present singular third person McAdamises · participle present McAdamising · participle past McAdamised · past McAdamised

1. alternativenon-Oxford British spellingAlternative spelling of macadamize.

   Mr. Vawter, of Lexington, has invented a machine for breaking stone for McAdamising roads.

   1830 June 15, “Machine for Breaking Stone”, in Mechanics’ & Farmers’ Magazine of Useful Knowledge, volume I, number 1, New York, N.Y., →OCLC, page 29

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   Plank Roads have very recently been introduced into this country. According to the patent office report of January 1843, they had their origin in Russia, and were introduced into Canada by Lord Sydenham, he being induced to try the experiment in consequence of the great cost, in the first instance, of McAdamising a road, and the expense of keeping it in repair. The first road made of plank was near Toronto. The three miles nearest the city having been McAdamised; the plank road commenced, at that distance from the city, and was extended some miles into the country.

   1847 April 9, George Geddes, “Plank Roads: Their Construction and Advantages, with Observations on Present System of Making Public Roads”, in Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society, […], volume VI, number 150, Albany, N.Y.: C. Van Benthuysen and Co., […], →OCLC, page 246

   After news leaked out that the Patriots had been employed building the local Anglican church rather than McAdamising their ways on the roads of Van Diemen’s Land, Captain Alexander Cheyne, the Director of Public Works, was called to account, and in the event he too lost his job.

   2002, Cassandra Pybus, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, “Green Ponds”, in American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839–1850, East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, →ISBN, page 145