Someone who lays road surfaces - what today we call tarmac.
Tarmac (short for tarmacadam) is a road surface material patented in 1901 in the UK.
It is an improvement on the surface developed in the 1820's by John Loudon McAdam.
It's crushed rock mixed with cement then sealed with tar.
Devon FHS
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