Definitions
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- adjective of a road Surfaced, tarred, covered in stone or crushed rock (usually tar-coated).
- adjective of any object Made of
metal or having metal fittings or plating. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
metal .
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Examples
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Though they are forever supplying definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary, neither appears to have looked up "metalled," both believing that a "metalled road" has something to do with metal (rather than broken stone).
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Though they are forever supplying definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary, neither appears to have looked up "metalled," both believing that a "metalled road" has something to do with metal (rather than broken stone).
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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These urban dramas and revelations prove that, at long last, Crossrail – the £16bn mainline railway linking far-flung east and west London suburbs through four miles of tunnels between Paddington and Farringdon – is finally on its metalled march.
Crossrail goes with the flow as London's mayor unveils designs for eight stations Jonathan Glancey 2010
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The path meandered over hills, through woodland and across fields, sometimes on quite indistinct paths and occasionally on metalled road.
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The path meandered over hills, through woodland and across fields, sometimes on quite indistinct paths and occasionally on metalled road.
Lochaber Marathon 2010
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Nailtips metalled and tasting of blood, spreading gilded pages with atlickt
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Aid can save lives, reduce hunger, deliver a medicine, a mosquito net, a meal or a metalled road.
Africa Needs Growth, Not Pity and Big Plans MATT RIDLEY 2010
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There are no other metalled roads within the Park and much of the rest is only accessible by air via four airstrips built by Capuchin missionaries.
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After all metalled roads reach out to Deepest Dagenham, as does the District Line of the London Underground System.
Archive 2007-05-27 2007
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We joined the metalled road that comes directly from West Linton here and after a bit of a climb we were on the old drove road which cross the Pentlands, eventually coming out at Harperrig Reservoir.
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