macadamizing

Verb

macadamize (third-person singular simple present macadamizes, present participle macadamizing, simple past and past participle macadamized)

1. (American and Oxford British spelling) To cover (a road) with macadam (small, broken stones) so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.
   • Lo there what mix’d conditions run!
     The orphan lad; the widow’s son;
     And Fortune’s favour’d care—
     The wealthy born, for whom she hath
     Mac-Adamized the future path—
     The Nabob’s pamper’d heir!1824 April 10, Thomas Hood, “Ode on a distant Prospect of Clapham Academy”, in New Monthly Magazine, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2016, pages 355–357

   Synonyms:

   macadam