pavior

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English

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Etymology

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From Anglo-Norman paviour, from pavier (to pave).

Noun

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pavior (plural paviors)

  1. A person who lays paving slabs. [from 15th c.]
    • 1778 April 3, “Appendix. Report from the Committee on the State of the Pavements, &c. in the Streets of Dublin”, in The Journals of the House of Commons, of the Kingdom of Ireland, [], volume XX, Dublin: Printed by Abraham Bradley and Abraham Bradley King, [], published 1782, →OCLC, page 539:
      [T]he Contract with the Pipe-water Pavior was, as he recollects, to keep the Pavement in Repair for ſix Weeks; []
    • 1853, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 6, page 387:
      A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.
  2. A brick or slab used for paving. [from 17th c.]
  3. (obsolete) A machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs. [19th c.]

Latin

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Verb

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pavior

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of paviō