reˈpave, v.
(riː-)
[re- 5 a: cf. F. repaver (14th c. Godef.).]
trans. To pave again or anew.
| 1611 Florio, Rammattonare, to repaue with brickes. 1652 Benlowes Theoph. i. l, Blest then who shall..wash the bloody stones With her own cursed Gore; repave them with her Bones. 1868 in Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. (1870) IV. xlii. 424 The streets are being repaved and widened. 1886 Willis & Clark Cambridge II. 377 Chapel and ante-chapel were..repaved with large squares of stone. |