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Definition of Macadams
1. macadam [n] - See also: macadam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Macadams
Literary usage of Macadams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook for Highway Engineers: Containing Information Ordinarily Used in by Wilson Gardner Harger, Edmund Arnold Bonney (1919)
"Bituminous macadams are constructed in two ways, by the penetration method and
by the mixing method. ... Depth of Top Courses for Bituminous macadams. ..."
2. Handbook for Highway Engineers, Containing Information Ordinarily Used in by Wilson Gardner Harger, Edmund Arnold Bonney (1912)
"All bituminous binders have the following practical disadvantages whether applied
as surface coats or as binders in bituminous macadams. ..."
3. Annual Report by New Hampshire Railroad Commissioners (1908)
"Then personally appeared the above named EP Weeks, assistant treasurer, and JA
MacAdams, superintendent, and severally made cath that the foregoing ..."
4. English Local Government: The Story of the King's Highway by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1913)
"The two macadams, father and son, were annually extending their range of work
and " macadamizing " an ever increasing mileage of the roads. ..."
5. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"One-course asphaltic macadams have been tried but in few cases have they had a
long life under heavy traffic as the winter traffic tends to unseal the ..."
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