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pavement |
4 definitions found 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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