pavior

A person who lays paving slabs.

Noun

  1. A person who lays paving slabs.
    • [T]he Contract with the Pipe-water Pavior was, as he recollects, to keep the Pavement in Repair for ſix Weeks; […] - 1778 April 3, “Appendix. Report from the Committee on the State of the Pavements, &c. in the Streets...
    • 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. - 1853, Charles...
  2. A brick or slab used for paving.
  3. A machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs.

Origin

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

Forms

paviors paviour