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.

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