Crossword clues for shaver
shaver
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shaver \Shav"er\, n.
One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.
One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
--Swift.-
One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
By these shavers the Turks were stripped.
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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.
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(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.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who shaves," early 15c., agent noun from shave (v.); sense of "fellow, chap" is slang from 1590s. Meaning "shaving tool" is from 1550s. Mad shaver (1610s) was 17c. slang for "a swashbuckler, roisterer."
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who shaves. 2 A barber, one whose occupation is to shave. 3 A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor. 4 (context slang obsolete English) One who is close in bargains; a sharper. 5 One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer. 6 (context colloquial English) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.
WordNet
n. an adult male who shaves
a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters" [syn: child, kid, youngster, minor, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling]
a razor powered by an electric motor [syn: electric shaver, electric razor]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Shaver means a person who shaves, or an object which shaves, a razor. It may also refer to:
- a boy, as a slang term for shaveling
- Shaver, California, former town in California
- Shaver Creek, tributary of the Juniata River in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
- Shaver Lake, in Fresno County, California
- Jeff Shaver (born 1963), American baseball player
- Mike Shaver (born 1977), member of the Mozilla project
- Richard Sharpe Shaver (1907–1975), American writer and artist
- Stephanie Shaver, writer (born 1975), artist and computer game designer
- A band featuring Billy Joe Shaver and Eddy Shaver
- A breed of chicken (Red Shaver) that is multipurpose, good for laying eggs and for meat production
Usage examples of "shaver".
Laying the shaver down, he glanced around the area, finding a toolbox at the end of the bench, exactly where it should be.
Experimenter stood trembling in the basement, glowering at the ruined shaver, his frustration and anger growing by the second.
Experimenter picked up the pieces of the shaver, mounted the stairs, and left the house through the back door.
Making up his mind, he picked up the gleaming new shaver and turned around.
He remembered yesterday, and the inexplicable appearance of the shaver and the fishing rod.
She expected the woman to take the shaver and do the work herself, but she just waited and the girl got the message.
Harry was using his electric shaver when Susie breezed in with a bag of shopping and a cheery smile.
Harry came through into the washroom with the electric shaver Dillon had done a lightning change into a clean white shirt, black tie and neatly pressed grey trousers.
In response, Shaver sacrificed all his leaders to protect a hidden card.
One could always count on Shaver to do something vindictive just before he lost.
Here Harry soon provided himself with a change of clothes, as well as a shaver and a toothbrush.
He had shown this in his earlier work on something completely wacky that he called Great Shaver Mystery.
Graham was standing before his mirror, his electric shaver whirring busily, when the telephone shrilled.
In the airport later that day I was able, fortuitously, to purchase a stainless-steel shaver with flat, double-edged disposable blades.
He takes seriously the claims of Richard Shaver, who - as described below - played a role in the origin of the UFO excitement in America.