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