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Stiver vs Stover - What's the difference?

stiver | stover |

As nouns the difference between stiver and stover

is that stiver is a small Dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder while stover is fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.

stiver

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) A small Dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder.
  • Anything of small value.
  • * 1761 , , The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , vol. 4 (Penguin 2003, p. 223):
  • ’Tis not worth a single stiver , said the bandy-leg'd drummer.
  • *1851 ,
  • [A]ll hands, including the captain, received certain shares of the profits called lays . . . . And though the 275th lay was what they call a rather long lay, yet it was better than nothing; and if we had a lucky voyage, might pretty nearly pay for the clothing I would wear out on it, not to speak of my three years' beef and board, for which I would not have to pay one stiver .

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    stover

    English

    (wikipedia stover)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
  • * 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
  • *:[...] Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,
  • *:And flat meads thatch'd with stover , them to keep; [...]
  • Stalks and leaves, not including grain, of certain
  • * 2012 , , August 24, p.20
  • *:Even second-generation in the ground.
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