paviour

/ ˈpeɪvjə /

noun

1. a person who lays paving
2. a machine for ramming down paving
3. material used for paving

Word History and Origins

Origin of paviour¹

C15: from paver, from pave

Example Sentences

He was just over six feet high, with the shoulders of a paviour and the heart and lung capacity of a diver.

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The question of the war with England is debated by every native paviour and hodman of New York.

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As he adopted the phrase with a parental fondness, the father was called the “paviour.”

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Chihun thumped Moti Guj's bald head as a paviour thumps a kerbstone.

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But it is obvious that the paviour in a field hops the clod; that the clodhopper in a street paces the pavé.

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