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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

... drawled Jerry, "my marm was alive in them days—bless her heart! Dad was killed on the boom down Rolling River when I was a little shaver; but marm hung on till I got growed. Ya-as! I mean till I got clean through growin' and that was long after I voted fust time," and he chuckled and wagged ...

— Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp • Alice Emerson

... upon us, Mr. Rifle! we know you very well." "Oho!" cried the thief, "you do! But you never shall be evidence against me in this world, you dog!" So saying, he drew a pistol, and fired it at the unfortunate shaver, who fell flat upon the ...

— The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett

... I'm wicked! I'm noisy! I make my ma's head ache every day! I usen't to be so wicked when I was a little shaver. I used to be a shaver, did you know that? But now I'm a boy. That's because I'm eight. I'm a boy and I'm wicked. I'm awful wicked, and I'm getting worse. I whistle. Did you think I could whistle? Well, I can.... There! did you hear that? It's wicked to whistle in the house—to whistle ...

— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable

... he was feeling very weak; then he became conscious of the touch of a warm, friendly hand on his wrist and he heard the voice of the old family doctor—the one who had set his leg when he was a little shaver and had fallen ...

— The Primrose Ring • Ruth Sawyer

... Wiggs, swallowing the lump in her throat, "Jim said he'd go. He never had been to the city, an' he was jes' a little shaver, but I knowed I ...

— Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch • Alice Caldwell Hegan

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