1352 in W. H. St. J. Hope Windsor Castle (1913) I. 163 (MED) viij m Pavyngtil in la fflor Novi Capituli.

1396 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1882) I. 332 (MED) Item, ij carectis plenis lapidis pro pavyng, xij d.

1423 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 147 (MED) Robert Smyth dede paie of his owne good x li. for to departe þe hous yn diuerse Chambres..with pavyng of þe kechon and makyng of þe ston wall for þe reredose.

1500–1 Churchwardens' Accts.: Ashburton, Devon in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 47 For pavyng of the church..iiij s ij d.

1534 Rye Churchwardens' Accts. in Antiquarian Horol. (1976) Winter 51 Item payde for pavynge of the frenchmans grave ijs.

1658 Sir T. Browne Wks. (1852) III. 496 By clearing the fennes..and soe comprehending cawsing, paving, drayning, etc.

1748 H. Purefoy Let. 30 Mar. in G. Eland Purefoy Lett. (1931) I. i. 22 Then there will be the Paving of the Church left for the Parish to do which will come to about four pounds besides y^e workmanship.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. ix. 731 Local Acts for paving, lighting, &c. of boroughs.

1988 Highway & Heavy Constr. (Nexis) Apr. 40 Each tanker load provided 2 to 4 hours of paving.

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 431 And yote on hit tyl pauyng playn and stronge.

1774 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1921) 16 30 Stone..is in general fitter for flags & Paveing.

1795 J. Aikin Descr. Country round Manch. i. vi. 111 There are, besides, slate brought down, and corn, deal balk, paving and lime-stone carried up.

1907 Centralia (Washington) Chron. 22 Aug. 4/3 His company has secured a contract to lay some paving in Chehalis.

1988 Newsday (Nexis) 29 June 4 Half the 650,000 tons of paving used annually on city streets could be replaced by glasphalt.

1448 Will of Henry VI in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 355 The cloistre to..be sette but ij fete lower than the pavyng of the chirch.

1562–3 in Rec. Worshipful Company Carpenters (1916) IV. 149 Payd to Ric. dawson for xxxiij yeardes pavynge at yo^r gate.

1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 554 A stone worke, such as they use in pauings.

1689 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston 197 The inconveniencie & damage that shod cart Wheeles doe, to the paueing of the streetes.

1776 R. E. Raspe tr. J. J. Ferber Trav. Italy xix. 269 The stones employed in buildings, decorations, and pavings, are natural hints of the nature of the neighbouring hills and quarries.

1807 tr. Three Germans III. 59 The clattering hoofs..were heard upon the paving of the outer courts.

1898 Dict. National Biogr. LV. 454/2 For three consecutive years..he drew attention to the defective paving and lighting of the streets of London.

1921 G. Jekyll Colour Schemes for Flower Garden 44 On the right, next the paving, are two large standard Roses.

1994 Harrowsmith June 51/2 Some herbs..can establish themselves..near paths, pavings, rocky areas, waste ground or wherever nothing else will grow.

1877 C. Wordsworth Scholae Academicae ix. 101/2 Boys in the sixth [were] ‘set on’ in turn to translate such authors as Theocritus for the benefit of the others, among whom the lazy or dilatory would trust to this as sufficient preparation for their own innings which was to follow,..a questionable practice, for which I believe ‘t'other-school notion’ is paving; in America, illuminating.

1888 H. Logeman Rule of St. Benet p. xxxvi Dr. Thompson..said that the Rugby boys' slang term for this process was paving—paving smooth (I suppose) the rough road of learning Latin.

1914 ‘I. Hay’ Lighter Side School Life v. 138 He is greatly addicted to a more venial crime known as ‘paving’.

1958 L. Foster in Aspects of Transl. 10 The ‘paving’ of books by schoolboys and the old-fashioned classical ‘literal crib’ are rather different cases of translations intended to facilitate comprehension of the original text, not to supplant it.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Pauicula, a pauyng bytell.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. xv. 681 Make it plaine and smooth with a pauing beetle or rowler.

1878 Scribner's Monthly June 251/2 By the side of the overseer..stood a tall, muscular man, pounding the stones with a paving-beetle.

1854 N. Amer. Rev. July 110 Loose masses of limestone, often as large and angular as paving-blocks of granite.

1992 Earth Mar. 66/1 The rock was used extensively for ship's ballast, paving blocks, aggregate, riprap and railroad ballast.

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 40 Paving-bricks..are by some call'd Paving-Tiles.

1854 H. Barnard School Archit. U.S. 192 The Cellar, and the Passage-way.., are to be paved with the best paving-brick.

1991 BBC Gardeners' World Sept. 46/2 In older gardens, particularly those that date back to Edwardian or Victorian times, you might be lucky enough to inherit paths laid in old blue paving bricks.

1845 J. Train Hist. & Statist. Acct. Isle of Man II. xiv. 38 Besides the crosses yet retained on the consecrated precincts there are others..used either as paving flags or stiles.

1914 W. S. Blunt Poet. Wks. I. 407 The stone was brought, A ponderous mass, broad as a paving flag.

1986 Lancashire Life Jan. 17/2 For stealing ten paving flags worth £25, two Rochdale men have each been fined £50.

1678 in Rec. Court of New Castle on Delaware (1904) 351 1 paving hammer.

1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 41 With paving Hammers we chipped off so much more of the Bank.

1919 Atlanta Constit. 28 Aug. 4/6 [He] crossed the road where the tools used in the road work were, picked up a paving hammer and advanced towards Captain Randall in a threatening manner.

1888 H. Logeman Rule of St. Benet p. xxxvi ‘In order to get an Anglo-Saxon translation, not glosses’—thus my friend writes—‘some one put in those “paving” letters to indicate the word-order of the vernacular text.’

1996 I. Milfull Hymns of Anglo-Saxon Church ii. 33 A fourth hand..has..added syntactical glosses, sometimes called ‘paving letters’.

1856 Sci. Amer. 16 Feb. 180/2 (heading) Paving machine.

1958 R. J. Forbes Man, the Maker ix. 233 Le Large had even invented a paving machine in 1717, which, however, was little used.

1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 June 14/1 Heavy Russian paving machines are resurfacing some of the streets.

1847 Sci. Amer. 6 Nov. 11/1 Smoothing causeways, by means of flags or other paving materials.

1904 H. A. Nesbitt Italy xi. 181 In North Italy and Tuscany this paving material is often not to be had in the neighbourhood, so that shingle from the rivers is used instead.

1989 Observer (Narrogin, Austral.) 25 Jan. 1/6 Paving material for townscape work in Fortune Street has arrived.

1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 94 Paving rammes of tre.

1863 C. Reade Hard Cash II. xvii. 264 Something dark came past her like a rushing wind, a blow, that sounded exactly like that of a paving ram.

1914 T. M. Parrott Plays & Poems G. Chapman 763 A beetle, or paving-ram, was a type of slowness.

1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 89 Paving rammers of tymbre.

1871 Appletons' Jrnl. 4 Mar. 254/1 He bears in his hand, wherewith he strikes the ground as if with a paving-rammer, something between a stick and the trunk of a tree.

1900 Daily Herald (Delphos, Ohio) 10 July 2/6 A beating down with a heavy rammer—a paving rammer even, if it can be had, is of more importance than watering would be.

1835 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz (1836) 1st Ser. I. 35 Watching rates, lighting rates, paving rates.

1892 W. Besant London ix. 462 The church-wardens' rate for repairing the church; the paving-rate, of one and sixpence in the pound.

1999 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 6 Apr. 1 For the rest of this fiscal year, the paving rate is 8.75 percent.

1868 E. W. Kittredge U.S. Patent 82,009 1/1 I..have invented a new and useful Paving-Roller.

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1642/2 Paving-roller, a heated roller for compacting asphalt pavement.

1994 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 28 Dec. b1 The man who struck the transformer with a paving roller did not report the incident.

1500 in R. W. Ingram Rec. Early Eng. Drama: Coventry (1981) 94 Item for a lode of pavyn sande iij d.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. 144 Paving-sand, upon which, as good a foundation, most of the houses in Amsterdam are built, piles being first driven into it.

2003 N.Y. Times 27 Mar. f2/5 If that soil is already sandy..you will have to haul the paving sand away.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 544 Paving-slabs and chimney-pieces are found by superficial measure.

1918 tr. A. France Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard i. 74 It had always been a keen pleasure for me to breathe the air in those Parisian Streets whose every paving-slab and every stone I love devotedly.

1985 Gardening from Which? Aug. 243 If you are..breaking up..paving slabs..eye accidents can be avoided by using..eye shields.

1890 Manitoba Daily Free Press 19 Nov. 7/3 (advt.) For sale: Tamarac wood! Delivered in any quantity to any part of the city also the cuttings from block paving wood.

1950 F. M. Ford Parade's End i. vii. 777 The square..was all illuminated and packed and roaring, with bonfires made of the paving wood.

1958 Hansard Commons 16 May 851 I regard it [sc. the Betting Bill] as paving legislation for a totalisator monopoly.

1985 Keesing's Contemp. Archives Aug. 33802/1 The Local Government (Interim Provisions) Act 1984..was itself described as a ‘paving’ measure.

1997 A. Barnett This Time iv. 106 The Maastricht paving debate.

2002 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 14 Nov. 8 There was no paving bill for a referendum on the euro.