单词 | unmetalled |
释义 | unmetalledunmetaledadj. Of a road: not surfaced with road metal. Cf. metalled adj. 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [adjective] > having specific surface or construction unironedc1450 unpaveda1533 corduroy1822 macadamized1823 metalled1825 unmacadamized1826 flagless1840 unmetalled1843 corduroyed1854 woolly1862 water-bound1909 hardtop1915 1843 in T. J. Dyke Addr. Public Med. (1885) 2 The unmetalled and unchannelled highways and streets. 1862 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 211 The continuation of this road..is unmetalled. 1897 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 11 72 The balks..seem to be..unmetalled roadways. 1920 Hide & Leather 13 Mar. 99 All transport at present is on pack animals, but three unmetaled roads up to the hill country have been constructed. 1996 J. Lanchester Debt to Pleasure (1997) 214 It started first time and I bumped along the unmetalled lane to the main road. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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