chipseal

English
A chipseal road

Alternative forms
  • chip and seal
  • chip seal

Etymology

chip +‎ seal

Noun

chipseal (countable and uncountable, plural chipseals)

  1. A pavement surface treatment that combines one or more layers of asphalt with one or more layers of fine aggregate.

Synonyms

Verb

chipseal (third-person singular simple present chipseals, present participle chipsealing, simple past and past participle chipsealed)

  1. (transitive) To apply this surface treatment to.

References
  1. Orsman, Harry W. (1997) The Dictionary of New Zealand English, First edition, Auckland: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 818

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