metalled

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   (Of a road) surfaced with crushed stone or gravel.

   They drove slowly along the narrow metalled road that wound through the hills.

2. 2
   adj

   Made of metal, or fitted with metal parts.

   The old chest had a heavy metalled lid that was hard to lift.

3. 3
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of metal (to surface a road with stone).

   The council metalled the lane last summer to stop it turning to mud.

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