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TELFORD
Etymology
Proper noun
Telford
A new town in Telford and Wrekin and the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England.
(attributive) A road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth, distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly in the interstices.
A surname.
Source: Wiktionary
Tel"ford, a. [After Thomas Telford, a Scotch road engineer.]
Definition: Designating, or pert. to, a road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth, distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly, in the interstices; as, telford pavement, road, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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