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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1531-1629, 1699
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Pa-, Pay-, Paiment, n. Also: pae-. [ME. (chiefly north.) and north. e.m.E. pament (Rolle), payment (c 1440), pamente (1530), also paument (c 1400), varr. of midl. and south. pavement Pavement n. Also in the later East Anglian dial. as pamment.] Paving; a pavement; in senses a and b of Pathement n. Also attrib. with -stane. 1531 Bell. Boece II. 89.
He inhibite to … graif the signe of the croce on ony pament [M. pavement] of kirkis 1534–5 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I. 121.
To lay payment a1538 Abell 12 a.
The pament [was] of precios stones a1538 Ib. 48 a.
Paiment 1553–4 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 24.
xii elnis of new payment to the queir 1584 Cart. S. Nich. Aberd. II. 386.
For laing of certain payment in the … ylis 1699 Thanes of Cawdor 394.
To bring such … paement as they shall win in the corie of Nairnattrib. 1575 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 590.
The poynting off … the payment stanis 1629 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II. 267.
For leiding of 300 payment staines … iiixx lib.
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