Definition of Metalling

1. Verb. (present participle of metal) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Metalling

1. metal [v] - See also: metal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metalling

metallicized
metallicizing
metallick
metallicly
metallicness
metallicolous
metallics
metallide
metallides
metallifacture
metallifactures
metalliferous
metalliform
metallike
metalline
metalling (current term)
metallise
metallised
metallises
metallising
metallism
metallist
metallists
metallization
metallizations
metallize
metallized
metallized dye
metallizes
metallizing

Literary usage of Metalling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Contract of Marine Insurance by Charles McArthur (1885)
"THE metalling CLAUSE. Warranted free from particular average ... The " metalling clause," of which various forms in use (a;), was framed to give effect to a ..."

2. Road Making and Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors by Thomas Aitken (1907)
"The reduction in the size of the metalling is caused by the wheel traffic passing over the road wearing the stones, internal friction or abrasion, ..."

3. India in 1880 by Richard Temple (1881)
"... metalling—Pack-bullocks in part superseded—Carts with draught-bullocks substituted—Embankments in Bengal, Behar and Orissa —In the valley of the Indus. ..."

4. India in 1880 by Richard Temple (1881)
"... metalling—Pack-bullocks in part superseded—Carts with draught-bullocks substituted—Embankments in Bengal, Behar and Orissa —In the valley of the Indus. ..."

5. Road Making and Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors by Thomas Aitken (1900)
"In order to obtain the best wearing results from a coat of metalling it is obviously necessary that the weight of the machine by which the material is ..."

6. Notes on Irrigation, Roads & Buildings & on the Water Supply of Towns by William Lumisden Strange (1920)
"metalling. A dusty, rutty, or nubbly road is an indication of the coating being too old, of inferior or unsuitable metal having been used, ..."

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