Stiver vs Stover - What's the difference?
stiver | stover |
(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):
*1851 ,
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.
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)- ’Tis not worth a single stiver , said the bandy-leg'd drummer.
- [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 .