maˈcadamizer
[f. macadamize + -er1.]
1. One who makes macadamized roads.
| 1824 Newcastle Mag. III. 26 [The paviours] have..nothing to do but to transform themselves into Macadamizers. 1864 Reader 11 June 747/3 Our London macadamizers go about their work in a very unscientific way. 1881 Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 87 Paviour... Macadamiser. |
2. One who rides on a macadamized road; esp. one who keeps to the roads when hunting.
| 1832 G. Downes Lett. Cont. Countries I. 11 Our little Gallic Macadamizer asked one of the Hibernians present [etc.]. 1838 Surtees Jorrocks's Jaunts 55 A private road and a line of gates through fields now greet the eyes of our M'Adamisers. 1869 ‘Bradwood’ O.V.H. I. xii. 219 ‘Here come all the roadsters!’ growled the latter, as the hounds..crossed a bye-road—along which in the rear clattered some fifty macadamisers. |