paviour

British  

/ ˈpeɪvjə /

noun

1. a person who lays paving

2. a machine for ramming down paving

3. material used for paving

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Etymology

Origin of paviour

C15: from paver, from _pave

Example Sentences

A paviour, of the name of Obrien, assured me in 1750, that he only meant to sleep one night in Birmingham, in his way from London to Dublin.

From An History of Birmingham (1783) by Hutton, William

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 Trusler, John

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 Ruskin, John

A Rustic is a clodhopper; an Urbane is a paviour.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

They were "maidens" among the paviour folk, and determined not to give up this honourable appellation, and let themselves be miscalled rammers.

From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)