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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Shav·er n.
 1. One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.
 2. One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
 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.”
    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.]
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