noun
- broken stone or similar material used for making or repairing roads
Usage: British spelling
Examples
- The workers spread fresh metaling on the damaged section of the highway.
- Local quarries supplied metaling for the new road construction project.
- Heavy rains had washed away much of the metaling from the rural lane.
- The council ordered several tons of metaling to repair the potholes.
- Crushed limestone was used as metaling for the driveway.
- The road crew compacted the metaling with heavy rollers.