Definition of "paviour" []

• A person who lays paving slabs. (noun)
• A machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs. (noun)
• A brick or slab used for paving. (noun)

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• "The tradesman leaves his counter, and the car – man his waggon; the butcher throws down his tray; the baker his basket; the milkman his pail; the errand – boy his parcels; the school – boy his marbles; the paviour his pickaxe; the child his battledore."
• "As we proceeded, the country changed to extensive plains and undulations of stones and gravel, washed perfectly level by water, and with the stones as even in size and as regularly laid as if they had been picked out and laid by a paviour."
• "The ancient paviour said, his eldest son was a captain in the East Indies; and the youngest had lately inlisted as"