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 ancient paviour said, his eldest son was a captain in the East Indies; and the youngest had lately inlisted as a soldier, in hopes of prospering like his brother.
From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
He is the paviour of the high-street of Hades.
From The Infernal Marriage by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
A Rustic is a clodhopper; an Urbane is a paviour.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
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
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 Halleck, Fitz-Greene
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