subs. (common).—A drink; a PICK-ME-UP (q.v.); a GO (q.v.).
1876. BESANT and RICE, The Golden Butterfly, viii. It was but twelve o’clock, and therefore early for REVIVERS of any sort.
2. (common).—A mending tailor: cf. TRANSLATOR. Hence, as verb. = to mend; to patch.
1864. The Times, 2 Nov. REVIVERS, who rejuvenate seedy black coats, and, for the moment, make them look as good as new.
1865. Cassell’s Illustrated Family Paper, 15 April, 181, Article, ‘Old Clo’.’ They are now past ‘clobbering,’ ‘REVIVING,’ or ‘translating’; they are, in fact, at the lowest point of Fortune’s wheel, but the next turn puts them in its highest point again.
