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English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman paviour, from pavier (“to pave”).
Noun
pavior (plural paviors)
- A person who lays paving slabs.
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.
- A brick or slab used for paving.
- (obsolete) A machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs.
Latin
Verb
pavior
- first-person singular present passive indicative of paviō