Meaning of screever | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who screeves, or draws with chalks on a pavement or sidewalk.
   obsolete, slang
2. A writer of begging letters.
   obsolete, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“The Street-Artists—as black profile-cutters, blind paper-cutters, “screevers” or draughtsmen in coloured chalks on the pavement, writers without hands, and readers without eyes.”

“Such a ‘fakement,’ professionally filled up and put into the hands of an experienced lurker, will bring the ‘amanuensis,’ or ‘screever,’ two guineas at least, and the proceeds of such an expedition have in many cases averaged 60l. per week.”

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