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paver (c.1235)
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paver (c.1235)

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paveier,  paveyer,  pavier,  pavyer  (pauuez (l. pawez? pauvez?)  Dest Rome1 709)  
  FEW:  pavire 8,81a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  paver 10,300a TL: paver 7,517 DEAF:  paver  DMF:  paver  TLF:  paver  OED:  pave v.  MED:  paven v.  DMLBS:  pavare 2155c

v.trans.

build.to pave, lay (a surface) with paving tiles: 
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiiex )  Savaris et Garins avale les degrez De la tour haltisme, qe bien esteit pauuez (l. pawez? pauvez?)  Dest Rome1 709
( 1415-16 )  Item a dit Wauter de paver le aley et le yerd ové hewen ragge et le cloistre paramount et abas ové le entré vers le posterne ové large pament de .iiij. a le verge [...]  Mch Tayl Accs2 283 (3 Henry V)
( 1426 )  pour pavier le chauncel de l'esglise de Bokelond  Reg Chich ii 343

v.intrans.

build.to pave, lay (a surface) with paving tiles: 
( 1321 )  nul ne dait paver mes devant son mees [...] dunqe covent qe l'autre (=the rest) seit despavé  YBB Ed II xxvi 189
( MS: 1419 )  Item, qe nul face paver pluis hault qe ses veisins  Lib Alb 586

sbst. inf.

build.paving, the action of laying paving tile: 
( 1406-07 )  Espenses faitz sur le pament et pavier  Mch Tayl Accs1 8 Henry IV

p.p. as a.

build.paved, covered with paving tile: 
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  E cist s'en vunt curant par la rue pavee  S Aub 503
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  De bordes ou de plastre pavié (var. (A: ) paveyé; (T: 1415-20) pavyé)  BIBB ROTH (G) 956

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See also:

despavé  pavage  pavement  pavementer  pavementtieule  paveour  paving  pavingston  pavingtieule 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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