macadamize

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

macadamize
    v 1: surface with macadam; "macadam the road" [syn:
         {macadamize}, {macadamise}, {tarmac}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Macadamize \Mac*ad"am*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Macadamized};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Macadamizing}.] [From John Loudon McAdam,
   who introduced the process into Great Britain in 1816.]
   To cover, as a road, or street, parking lot, playground, or
   other flat area, with {macadam}, so as to form a smooth,
   hard, convex surface.

   Syn: tarmac.
        [1913 Webster]