[peyv-muh
nt] 
| 1. | a paved road, highway, etc. |
| 2. | a paved surface, ground covering, or floor. |
| 3. | a material used for paving. |
| 4. | Atlantic States and British. sidewalk. |
| 5. | pound the pavement, Informal. to walk the streets in order to accomplish something: If you're going to find work you'd better start pounding the pavement. |
| pave·ment (pāv'mənt) n.
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Pavement
It was the custom of the Roman governors to erect their tribunals in open places, as the market-place, the circus, or even the highway. Pilate caused his seat of judgment to be set down in a place called "the Pavement" (John 19:13) i.e., a place paved with a mosaic of coloured stones. It was probably a place thus prepared in front of the "judgment hall." (See GABBATHA.)