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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pavement \Pave"ment\, n. [F., fr LL pavamentum L. pavimentum
See {Pave}.]
That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of
solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient
surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative
interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.
The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.
--Milton.
{Pavement teeth} (Zo["o]l.), flattened teeth which in certain
fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side
by side like tiles in a pavement.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pavement \Pave"ment\, v. t.
To furnish with a pavement; to pave. [Obs.] ``How richly
pavemented!'' --Bp. Hall.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
pavement
n 1: the paved surface of a thoroughfare [syn: {paving}]
2: material used to pave an area [syn: {paving}]
3: paved area for pedestrians; beside a street or roadway [syn:
{sidewalk}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Pavement
It was the custom of the Roman governors to erect their
tribunals in open places, as the market-place, the circus, or
even the highway. Pilate caused his seat of judgment to be set
down in a place called "the Pavement" (John 19:13) i.e., a place
paved with a mosaic of coloured stones. It was probably a place
thus prepared in front of the "judgment hall." (See {GABBATHA}.)
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