pavior

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11
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13
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6

Definition of pavior

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A person who lays paving slabs.
    “[T]he Contract with the Pipe-water Pavior was, as he recollects, to keep the Pavement in Repair for ſix Weeks; […]”
    “A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.”
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noun

  1. A person who lays paving slabs.
    “[T]he Contract with the Pipe-water Pavior was, as he recollects, to keep the Pavement in Repair for ſix Weeks; […]”
    “A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.”
  2. A brick or slab used for paving.
  3. (obsolete)A machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs.

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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman paviour, from pavier (“to pave”).

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