SHAVER

n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.

2.
n.

One who is close in bargains; a sharper. Swift.

3.
n.

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

4.
n.

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

5.
n.

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.]


← SHAVELING S — all words SHAVING →