pavior
Americannoun
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a person that paves; paver.
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a material used for paving.
Etymology
Origin of pavior
1375–1425; alteration of late Middle English pavier; see pave, -ier 1
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I do not know whether my back-woods friend, or the Parisian pavior, was the first inventor of this composition, but I am satisfied the corn-cracker had not stolen it from the stone-cracker.
From Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time by James R. Gilmore
The ox-driver in the fields, the pavior in the city streets, the laborer on the railroad, the lumberer in the woods, the girl in the factory, each has a claim on him.
From Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Theodore Parker
A pavior cannot be said to compose the heap of stones which he empties from his cart, nor the sower the handful of seed which he scatters from his hand.
From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by John Ruskin
“Cannot an honest pavior perform his work in peace, and get his money for it, and his living by it, without others talking rot about ambition and hopes of fame?”
From Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce
"Why you see the pavior undertook something above his strength."
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
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