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单词 pavement stone
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pavement stonen.

Brit. /ˈpeɪvm(ə)nt ˌstəʊn/, U.S. /ˈpeɪvm(ə)nt ˌstoʊn/
Forms: see pavement n. and stone n.; also Middle English pavemenston.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pavement n., stone n.
Etymology: < pavement n. + stone n. Compare post-classical Latin lapis pavimentalis (1473 in a British source). Compare slightly later paving stone n.
1. Stone used as a material for paving.In quot. 1829 perhaps: stone from a geological pavement (cf. pavement n. 3c).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > stone as material for paving
pavement stone1382
paving stone1400
paving?1440
flagging1622
pavementing1966
1382 in V. Harding & L. Wright London Bridge: Sel. Accts. (1995) 17 [Paid for 80 ft. of Kent paving stone.] Pavemenston.
1685 Bp. G. Burnet Let. 5 Nov. in Some Lett. (1686) 172 The Streets are paved..with great Stone, bigger than our common Pavement-Stone, but much thicker.
1739 R. Sibbald Coll. Treat. ii. i. 44 The Wall..was laid all over with Pavement Stone, and a Bink round about within it.
1829 C. Lyell Let. 11 Oct. in Life, Lett. & Jrnls. (1881) I. x. 255 Pavement stone is worked successfully at Ferne.
1888 F. W. O. Ward Women must Weep 79 Starving and lone, Stricken and rent, Among bosoms harder than pavement-stone.
1942 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 2 533 The sensation of a dark surface on the pavement would be recognized invariably as black pavement stone.
1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 Aug. c1 Building stone meets pavement stone to make a hard urban edge.
2. As a count noun: a paving stone.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > stone as material for paving > a paving stone
paving stone1474
pavement stone1575
pavement1589
pavior1611
paver1696
pavestone1810
paving slab1825
paving flag1845
roadblock1862
pave1897
1575 Edinb. Dean of Guilds Accts. 590 The poynting off..the payment stanis.
1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight iii. sig. F1v Thus are the pauement stones before the doores..worne smooth With clients dauncing for them.
1665 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1940) IX. 364 To pavement the south pairt..with pavement stones.
a1695 A. Wood Hist. & Antiq. Colleges & Halls Oxf. (1786) 206 Upon one of the pavement stones is this.
1746 ‘F. de Biron’ tr. Adventures & Amours Marquis de Noailles I. 254 The Trap-door..painted in such a manner that it appeared exactly like one of the Pavement Stones.
1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol i. 5 Stamping their feet upon the pavement-stones to warm them.
1870 Nature 17 Feb. 415/2 No capstone, and only one pavement-stone, was found sculptured.
1980 Redbook Oct. 202/1 Nicky is lulled to sleep by the gentle motion of the carriage bumping over the pavement stones.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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