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Webster 1913 Edition

Pavement

Pave′ment

,
Noun.
[F., fr. LL.
pavamentum
, L.
pavimentum
. See
Pave
.]
That with which anything is 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
(Zool.)
,
flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement.

Pave′ment

,
Verb.
T.
To furnish with a pavement; to pave.
[Obs.]
“How richly pavemented!”
Bp. Hall.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pavement

PA'VEMENT

,
Noun.
[L. pavimentum.] A floor or covering consisting of stones or bricks, laid on the earth in such a manner as to make a hard and convenient passage; as a pavement of pebbles, of bricks, or of marble.

PA'VEMENT

,
Verb.
T.
To pave; to floor with stone or brick. [Unusual.]

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