chawers

There air some catawampous chawers in the small way too, as graze upon a human pretty strong; but don't mind THEM -- they're company.

Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

There air some catawampous chawers in the small way too, as graze upon a human pretty strong; but don’t mind THEM — they’re company.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

"What in billy-be-doosen and thunderation do you mean, you weevil-chawers, by not coming alongside when signalled -- and us with

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

"But I have enough dealings with old rag-chawers in my business through the week not to want a Sunday off when I get with my own sort.

Dixie Hart 1888

"This ought to have been ` chest of drawers, 'and it's run into one word, ` chawers'; and up higher there's another blunder, ` loo-table, '-- it's gone wrong too -- do you see?

To The West George Manville Fenn 1870