scourer2+ (skourer)

[Early mod. E. also scowerer; rover, robber, or footpad; specifically, one of a band of young scamps who, in the latter half of the seventeenth century, roamed the streets of London and committed various kinds of mis chief. Bullies and scowerers of a long standing. Steele, Spectator, No. 324. Who has not heard the scowerer's midnight fame? Who has not trembled at the Mohock's name? Gay , Trivia, iii. 325.