- a variation of pavior.
paviour
Britishnoun
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a person who lays paving
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a machine for ramming down paving
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material used for paving
Etymology
Origin of paviour
C15: from paver, from pave
Example Sentences
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The intervals are filled up by a paviour, who, to every stroke of his rammer, adds a loud, distinct, and echoing, Haugh!
From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by John Trusler
A paviour 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 Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin
So the whole city visited Swamp Spring en masse, From attorney to sweep, from physician to paviour, To drink of cold water at sixpence a glass, And learn true politeness and genteel behaviour.
From Fanny With Other Poems by Fitz-Greene Halleck
A Rustic is a clodhopper; an Urbane is a paviour.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
But it is obvious that the paviour in a field hops the clod; that the clodhopper in a street paces the pavé.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
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