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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The question of the war with England is debated by every native pavior and hodman of New York.
From North America — Volume 1 by Anthony Trollope
"Why you see the pavior undertook something above his strength."
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
Jacques and Raoul and Pierre, and every peasant and pavior in Paris will come with boxes and panniers, and each of them will also demand his gold.
From The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough
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
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
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