单词 | pavement stone |
释义 | pavement stonen. 1. Stone used as a material for paving.In quot. 1829 perhaps: stone from a geological pavement (cf. pavement n. 3c). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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