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; pave, -ier 1
Example Sentences
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Does not each walker know the warning sign, When wisps of straw depend upon the twine Cross the close street, that then the pavior’s art Renews the way, denied to coach or cart?
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We had nothing for it but to get out and to walk past the paviors who had taken possession of it.
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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.
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Pikes, lances, spits, masons' hammers, paviors' crowbars, kitchen utensils,—their equipment is oddity itself.
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Who wants a wheel to break a butterfly upon; or, to crush a worm who calls for a pavior's rammer?
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