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noun

Shaver n.

One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.

One who is close in bargains; a sharper.

One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer. "By these shavers the Turks were stripped."

A boy; a lad; a little fellow. (Colloq.) "These unlucky little shavers." "As I have mentioned at the door to this young shaver, I am on a chase in the name of the king."

(Mech.) A tool or machine for shaving.

A note shaver, a person who buys notes at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest. (Cant, U.S.)

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Etymology of 'Shaver'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shaver" Quotes from Famous Books

... helped de best way I could, for I was a little shaver then, and Jim, he was next to me, he did little jobs for de white folks around. But father he got worse, and wouldn't work no how, and he was always gettin' took up, and then when they let him out of jail ...

— 'Our guy' - or, The elder brother • Mrs. E. E. Boyd

... "You funny little shaver," laughed Tom, good-humoredly. "So you think that, when men see you smoking cigarettes, they immediately imagine you to be one of them? Cigarette-smoking, for a boy of fourteen, is the short ...

— The Young Engineers in Nevada • H. Irving Hancock

... impostors that are the worst lot of all the lots to be met with. Speaking as a sufferer by both, I don't know that I wouldn't as soon have the Merdle lot as your lot. You're a driver in disguise, a screwer by deputy, a wringer, and squeezer, and shaver by substitute. You're a philanthropic sneak. You're a shabby deceiver!' (The repetition of the performance at this point was received with a ...

— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens

... young shaver of about nine or ten. I asked him what he was doing here, and he told me that this tent belonged to a gentleman who had gone away, and that he was here to watch it until he came back. Then I asked him how long ...

— Rudder Grange • Frank R. Stockton

... Dan'l hisself. It wuz thirty years ago. I wuz a little shaver no bigger'n you, but I remember jest as well ez ef it wuz yistiddy. Lordy, Boy, thar wuz er man that wuz er man! Ye couldn't a made no jackleg carpenter outen him——" He paused and cast a sly wink at Nancy as she bent over ...

— The Southerner - A Romance of the Real Lincoln • Thomas Dixon

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