Tiver vs Stiver - What's the difference?
tiver | stiver |
(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 ,
As nouns the difference between tiver and stiver
is that tiver is a kind of ochre used for marking sheep in some parts of england while stiver is (historical) a small dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder.As a verb tiver
is to mark with tiver, as sheep.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 .