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Paviour   Listen
noun
paviour  n.  See pavior (2).
Synonyms: pavior, paving machine.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Paviour" Quotes from Famous Books



... shakes him up and pats and pokes him in divers parts of his body, but particularly in that part which the science of self-defence would call his wind, that in his grievous distress he utters enforced sounds like a paviour's rammer. ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

... tries the long-forgotten smile; E'en the pursuing Bum forgets His business, and the man of Debts; The one neglecting "Caption"—"Bail"— The other "thoughts of gyves and Jail"— So wondrous are the spells that bind The noble and ignoble mind. The Paviour halts in mid-grunt—stands With rammer in his idle hands; And quite refined, and at his ease, Forgetting onions, bread, and cheese, The hungry Drayman leaves his lunch, To take ...
— Poems (1828) • Thomas Gent



Words linked to "Paviour" :   paving machine



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