pavement

A hard smooth surface, especially of a public area or thoroughfare, that will bear travel.

The material with which such a surface is made.

A sidewalk.

A floor or surface-covering of flags, stones, tiles, or bricks, usually laid in cement, but sometimes merely on a foundation of earth, or, particularly in ancient examples, accurately fitted in masonry without artificial bond; also, such a covering made of concrete (see concrete, n., 3), and sometimes of wood.

The material of which such a flooring is made: as, the pavement is tile.

The flagged or paved footway on each side of a street; a sidewalk.

In anatomy and zoö., a paved structure; a formation like pavement.

In coal-mining, the seam of fire-clay which usually underlies a seam of coal.

To pave; floor with stone, bricks, tiles, or the like.