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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