pavement

pavement
    n 1: the paved surface of a thoroughfare [syn: {pavement},
         {paving}]
    2: material used to pave an area [syn: {paving}, {pavement},
       {paving material}]
    3: walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually
       beside a street or roadway [syn: {sidewalk}, {pavement}]
    

Pavement \Pave"ment\, n. [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.
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         The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.
                                                  --Milton.
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   {Pavement teeth} (Zool.), flattened teeth which in certain
      fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side
      by side, like tiles in a pavement.
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Pavement \Pave"ment\, v. t.
   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}.)
    

105 Moby Thesaurus words for "pavement":
      Tarmac, Tarvia, adobe, ashlar, asphalt, base, basement, basis,
      bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, bitumen, bituminous macadam,
      blacktop, brick, bricks and mortar, carpet, carpeting, cement,
      clinker, cobble, cobblestone, concrete, cover, covering materials,
      curb, curbing, curbstone, deck, doormat, drop cloth, duckboards,
      earth, edgestone, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagging,
      flagstone, floor, floor covering, floorboards, flooring, fond,
      footing, foundation, fundament, fundamental, gravel, ground,
      ground cloth, ground-sheet, grounds, groundwork, hardpan, kerb,
      kerbstone, lath and plaster, macadam, masonry, mat, mortar,
      parquet, pave, pavestone, paving, paving material, paving stone,
      plasters, prestressed concrete, principle, radical, riprap,
      road metal, rock bottom, roofage, roofing, rudiment, rug, seat,
      siding, sill, solid ground, solid rock, stereobate, stone,
      stylobate, substratum, substruction, substructure, surfacing,
      tarmacadam, terra firma, tile, tiling, underbuilding,
      undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction,
      understructure, walling, washboard, welcome mat