Definition of "metalled" [metalled]

• Surfaced, tarred, covered in stone or crushed rock (usually tar-coated). (adjective)
• Made of metal or having metal fittings or plating. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of metal. (verb)

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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)."
• "Nailtips metalled and tasting of blood, spreading gilded pages with atlickt"
• "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."