pavior
English
Alternative forms
- paviour
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman paviour, from pavier (“to pave”).
Noun
pavior (plural paviors)
- A person who lays paving slabs. [from 15th c.]
- 1778 April 3, “Appendix. Report from the Committee on the State of the Pavements, &c. in the Streets of Dublin”, in The Journals of the House of Commons, of the Kingdom of Ireland, […], volume XX, Dublin: Printed by Abraham Bradley and Abraham Bradley King, […], published 1782, OCLC 264474860, page 539:
- [T]he Contract with the Pipe-water Pavior was, as he recollects, to keep the Pavement in Repair for ſix Weeks; […]
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Household Words (volume 6, page 387)
- 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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- A brick or slab used for paving. [from 17th c.]
- (obsolete) A machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs. [19th c.]
Latin
Verb
pavior
- first-person singular present passive indicative of paviō