road metal

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   broken rock used for repairing or making roads

   Broaderrock

Questions about road metal

What does road metal mean?

road metal means "broken rock used for repairing or making roads".

Is road metal a common word?

road metal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.