资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pavement \Pave"ment\, n. [F., fr. LL. pavamentum, L. pavimentum.
   See {Pave}.]
   That with which anythingis 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.

         The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.
                                                  --Milton.

   {Pavement teeth} (Zo["o]l.), flattened teeth which in certain
      fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side
      by side, like tiles in a pavement.