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• n  broken stone used in macadamized roadways
• n  a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar

• Overhead, Israeli Mysteres spotted a major reinforcing column (it apparently was a full corps of up to 50,000 men) lumbering eastward along the macadam road from Ismailia.
• In one of the few times police gave chase rather than standing their ground, they were pelted with rocks and pieces of macadam, countering by firing projectiles.
• Gone is the muffled, macadam-topped speech song of old.

• tarmacadam
• tarmac

News & Articles

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• Museum Unveils First Toshiko Horiuchi-MacAdam Art PlayScape in the United States on June 13
  WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- This innovative art playscape, installed in the Children's Museum's outdoor patio, will open to the public Thursday, June 13th. Similar crocheted Toshiko Horiuchi-MacAdam art playscapes have been installed in Japan, China and Spain, and...
  June 13, 2013 - PR Newswire
• Unique Radnor home is original tollkeeper's house
  Authorized by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly in 1792, the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike was the first planned and engineered road in the United States, with a hard, macadam-like surface and maximum grade of 7 percent. Linking the growing city to the farm fields of Lancaster, it was, in a sense, the superhighway of its time.
  June 13, 2013 - Main Line Suburban Life

Quotes

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• Joseph Bruno in NY1
  As I said before steamrolling works sometimes - usually if you're laying macadam. Well, we're not macadam in this state,said Bruno.