McAdamize

English Etymology From en McAdam ize. Verb en macadamize. en Francis Warriner Cruise of the United States Frigate Potomac Round the World, During the Years 1831-34.Embracing the Attack on Quallah Battoo, with Notices of Scenes, Mannes, etc., in Different Parts of Asia, South America, and the Islands of the Pacific. New York, N.Y. Published by Leavitt, Lord & Co.,182 Broadway; Boston, Mass.: Crocker & Brewster,47 Washington-street 1835 44 The streets are broad, and are all McAdamized. en Charles T. Woodman Narrative of Charles T. Woodman, a Reformed Inebriate Boston, Mass. Theodore Abbot,No. 66 Cornhill 1843 47 Of each division or arch of the building, a prisoner, whom the keeper thought trusty, had the charge; that is, he kept it clean, swept and whitewashed it while the prisoners were out in the prison yard cracking stones to McAdamize the city streets . en The Revised Ordinances of the City of Massillon, Comprising the General Ordinances and Certain Special Ordinances 1893 118–119 Whenever it may be deemed necessary by the City Council to pave or repave, McAdamize or re-McAdamize any street, avenue or highway over which said street Railway passes, it shall be the duty of said Company to pave or repave, McAdamize or re-McAdamize, the space between the rails of the tracks, turnouts and switches used by it on such streets, avenues or highways, and also the space between said main tracks and said turnouts and switches. Said paving, repaving, McAdamizing or re-McAdamizing, by said Company, shall be done in the same manner, en James Burke American Connections: The Founding Fathers. Networked. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2007 141 978-0-7432-8226-0 That year he was approached by the administrator of the Royal Military Hospital at Greenwich to McAdamize lots of Northumberland (northeast England) where the hospital owned big estates with coal mines that needed access roads. Derived terms en McAdamization en eponyms