roadmaking

The word "roadmaking" was capable of several interpretations.

The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway Archer Butler Hulbert 1903

Work: The prisoners work at roadmaking for 9 hours a day.

Work Camp 10049 GW 2010

They worked ten or twelve hours breaking rocks and stones for roadmaking and repairing, carrying heavy loads, performing superhuman tasks.

Rebecca Sieff. 2009

I could not keep up this roadmaking business for long.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

To us the task of roadmaking in No-Man's-Land was assigned.

The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

Descending the mountain by the opposite side of that of our arrival, -- namely, on the side next to Petra, -- we discovered that more pains in roadmaking had been bestowed there, and that the ascent in that direction would be comparatively easy.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

The bag-pipe was used at weddings and funerals, and at all festivals; to lighten labour, during the 18th century, as for instance in Skye, in 1786, when the inhabitants were engaged in roadmaking, and each party of labourers had its bag-piper.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Having expended a large sum of money in roadmaking and fences, at the tenant's request, he also borrowed thirty-five pounds to build a small house for which he has to pay thirty-five shillings per annum.

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

The subject of roads and roadmaking is one that to-day more than ever is a matter of deep concern to those responsible for a nation's welfare.

The Automobilist Abroad

Here too in one of these small hamlets through which we passed Ruskin with a gang of his pupils in flannels started roadmaking, and for days and weeks were to be seen at their arduous task of digging and excavation, toiling and moiling with pick, spade, and barrow, while

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor