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McAdamize en · VERB

Etymology

From McAdam + -ize.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of macadamize.
   alt of macadamize
   • 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 . 1843, Charles T. Woodman, Narrative of Charles T. Woodman, a Reformed Inebriate, Boston, Mass.: Theodore Abbot, […], page 47:
   • The streets are broad, and are all McAdamized. 1835, Francis Warriner, Cruise of the United States Frigate Potomac Round the World, During the Years 1831-34. […], New York, N.Y.: […] Leavitt, Lord & Co., […]; Boston, Mass.: Crocker & Brewster, […], page 44:
   • 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, […] 1893, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Massillon, Comprising the General Ordinances and Certain Special Ordinances, pages 118–119:
   • 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. 2007, James Burke, American Connections: The Founding Fathers. Networked., Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 141:

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Deriveds

McAdamization