pavior

American  

[peyv-yer] / ˈpeɪv yər /

especially British, paviour

noun

1. a person that paves; paver.

2. a material used for paving.

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Etymology

Origin of pavior

1375–1425; alteration of late Middle English pavier; see pave, -ier ¹

Example Sentences

I do not know whether my backwoods 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 The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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 Hough, Emerson

"Why you see the pavior undertook something above his strength."

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

"So it is, and the gentleman was in body a rather weakly man, but, for all that, I say again, the pavior undertook something above his strength."

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

I expect to see you marry a pavior yet, either one who lays down or one who tears up paving-stones.”

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 by Various