1. The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement.
2. A pavement.
PAVIOR
Pav"ior, n.
1. One who paves; a paver.
2. A rammer for driving paving stones.
3. A brick or slab used for paving.
PAVISE Pa*vise, n. Etym: [OF. pavaix, F. pavois; cf. It. pavese, LL. pavense; perh. named from Pavia in Italy.] (Mil. Antiq.)
Defn: A large shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it. [Written also pavais, pavese, and pavesse.] Fairholt.
PAVISOR
Pa*vis"or, n. (Mil. Antiq.)
Defn: A soldier who carried a pavise.