Pavis is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 63 anagrams from letters in pavis (aipsv).
1350-1400; Middle English paveys Middle French pavais Old Italian pavese literally, of Pavia; see -ese
The pavis was a tall shield, curved so as partly to envelop the person of the bearer, broad at the top and tapering to the feet.
But the archers of the besiegers sought to put themselves on more equal terms with their opponents by using the pavis or mantelet.
The most interesting example which we have met of the employment of the pavis and mantelet, is in a picture in the Harl.
The pavis or Pavoise (Fig. 37) was more generally used by archers and crossbowmen as a cover.
The archer using these heavy weapons was entrenched behind a pavis or shield fixed in the ground as shown on Fig. 37.