mcadamize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Example Sentences
- "The streets are broad, and are all McAdamized."
- "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 ."
- "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, […]"
- "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."
Etymology
From McAdam + -ize.