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Webster 1913 Edition
Shaver
Shav′er
,Noun.
1.
One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.
2.
One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
Swift.
3.
One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
By these
shavers
the Turks were stripped. Knolles.
4.
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.
(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.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Shaver
SHA'VER
,Noun.
1. One that shaves or whose occupation is to shave.
2. One that is close in bargains or a sharp dealer.
This Lewis is a cunning shaver. Swift.
3. One that fleeces; a pillager; a punderer.
By these shavers the Turks werestripped of all they had. Knolles.
SHA'VER
,Noun.
Definition 2025
shaver
shaver
English
Noun
shaver (plural shavers)
- One who shaves.
- A barber, one whose occupation is to shave.
- A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor.
- (slang, obsolete) One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jonathan Swift to this entry?)
- One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
- Knolles
- By these shavers the Turks were stripped.
- Knolles
- (colloquial) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.
- Charles Dickens
- As I have mentioned at the door to this young shaver, I am on a chase in the name of the king.
- Charles Dickens
Translations
one who shaves
barber — see barber
electric razor
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sharper — see sharper
pillager — see pillager
boy — see boy
References
- “shaver” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967