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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1598-1612, 1665-1697

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Pavement, v. Also: -mentt, and Paiument. [e.m.E.. pavemented ppl. a. (1634), f. Pavement,n.: cf. OF. pavementé paved.] tr. To pave. —1598 Elgin Kirk S. 56.
His brother to pavement the burial place
1598 Elgin Rec. II. 70.
Quhilk … his sone hes promeised to caus pauementt
1612 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I. 325.
The tour schalmer … is to be pavementit all throw
1665 Edinb. B. Rec. IX. 364 (see Pavement n. 1 attrib.). 1697 Glasgow B. Rec. IV. 232.
And to pavement the bottome of the cutt

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