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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective 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

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  • proper noun a new town in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England.

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Named after Thomas Telford, a famous civil engineer.

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