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screever slang.|ˈskriːvə(r)| Also 9 scriever. [f. screeve v.2 + -er1.] 1. A begging letter writer.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 313 ‘He writes a good hand’, exclaimed one, as the screever wrote the petition. 2. A pavement artist.
1876J. H. Ewing Jan of the Windmill xxxv. 336 The horrors of his life as a screever. 1894Marks Pen & Pencil Sk. II. 100 The pavement-artist, or ‘scriever’, as he is called in the profession. |