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Meaning of pavior | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

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

Examples

“[T]he Contract with the Pipe-water Pavior was, as he recollects, to keep the Pavement in Repair for ſix Weeks; […]”
“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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