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paviour

paviour

English

Noun

paviour (plural paviours)

  1. A person who lays paving slabs.
    • 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 machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs.
  3. A brick or slab used for paving.