Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SHAV-ER, n.¹

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 plunderer. By these shavers the Turks were stripped of all they had. – Knolles.