Category:Pavement

Pave"ment, n. Etym: [f., fr. Ll. pavamentum, l. pavimentum. See Pave.]

Defn: 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 (zoöl.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as The skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in A pavement.

Pavement Pave"ment, v. t.

Defn: to furnish with a pavement; to pave. [obs.] "how richly Pavemented!" Bp. Hall.

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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.)