Pavior

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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; […]"

  2. 2
    a machine for laying pavement wordnet
  3. 3
    A brick or slab used for paving.
  4. 4
    A machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs. obsolete

Example

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"[T]he Contract with the Pipe-water Pavior was, as he recollects, to keep the Pavement in Repair for ſix Weeks; […]"

Etymology

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

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