单词 | paving stone |
释义 | paving stonen. 1. Stone used as, or suitable for use as, a material for paving. 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 1400 in C. Frost Early Hist. Hull (1827) App. 15 (MED) xl m. pavyngston. 1769 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 7) I. 158 A Kind of Paving Stone, called Kentish-rags. 1829 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 180 Paving stone..is then to be thrown into the trenches. 1852 O. Byrne Pract. Model Calculator 401 Purbeck stone..Millstone..Paving stone. 1996 Australian (Nexis) 12 Jan. The slabs of paving stone laid out at the entrance. 2. As a count noun: a slab or block of stone used for paving. 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 1474–5 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 19 (MED) Item, of the sale of ij pavyng stones of marbul, viij d. 1520 in C. Gross Gild Merchant (1890) II. 122 Morters of Marbill et Pavyngstonys of marbyll. 1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Biv Couered the basket with a square pauing stone. 1613 J. Rovenzon Treat. Metallica sig. Dv Pauing-stones, Mantle-trees for chimneyes, pillers, monions for windowes. 1716 Boston News-let. 30 July 2/2 (advt.) A Parcel of Paving Stones and Grindle Stones..to be Sold by Mr. Joseph Fowle. 1824 W. Deykes Pavement Metrop. 6 The adoption of squared paving stones instead of the small round ones called pitchen stones. 1892 J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 3) 34 In tearing up the foundations of human belief, however, idealists have prepared paving-stones as missiles of anarchy and bloodshed. 1928 Jrnl. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. 34 153 The paving stones had been laid on the rab or subsoil. 1952 E. R. Janes Flower Garden 36 The broken paving stones obtainable in some towns when stone pavements are replaced by asphalt. 1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) x. 431/2 Build brick retaining walls between the posts or set paving stones in concrete to hold back the soil. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1400 |
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