metalling

Little able to labor at the heavy work of masonry, carpentering, metalling, or the plough, they are necessarily intrusted with the lighter labors of the interior of the house, and, above all, with the care of children.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The bike is soft, it has no round metalling edges, no dark glass, no real weight.

Big Men, small bikes Torill 2006

The bike is soft, it has no round metalling edges, no dark glass, no real weight.

Archive 2006-09-01 Torill 2006

It is the best ground of all, especially where the yellow or brown sands are overlaid by hard gravel, or by a natural metalling of trap and other stones.

The Land of Midian 2003

These analyses should indicate whether these waste products were reused for purposes such as terracing or road metalling, or whether actual metalworking activities took place here.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 17 2003

This year's area seems to have many features in common with the 2000 area, where dense concentrations of industrial waste were found, both related to road metalling (making roads with iron slag substrata) as well as to actual metalworking activity.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 17 2003

The track we were on, unpaved and without gravel or metalling, was nonetheless flat and wide enough for a cart, and largely free of stones — which was enough to make it noteworthy — and of bracken, which made it visible against the brown hillside.

The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998

Nails, felt and labour metalling are subject to a deduction of one-third.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

The terrier, he knew, had crossed the road, and there was something about this particular reach of metalling that tempted motorists to pass at the deuce of a pace.

Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922

He swung off into the darkness, and a minute later Anthony heard his steps upon the metalling of the London road.

Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922