chipseal

English

A chipseal road

Alternative forms

• chip and seal
• chip seal

Etymology

From 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

• tarseal

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.

Anagrams

• sphaceli