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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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 William Hutton
He is the paviour of the high-street of Hades.
From The Infernal Marriage by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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
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 H. W. (Henry William) Dulcken
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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