different between siver vs stiver
siver
English
Verb
siver (third-person singular simple present sivers, present participle sivering, simple past and past participle sivered)
- (obsolete) To simmer.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
Anagrams
- Revis, Rives, rives, sevir, viers, vires
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stiver
English
Etymology
From Dutch stuiver, cognate with Middle Low German stüver.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sta?v?/
Noun
stiver (plural stivers)
- (historical, money) A small Dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder.
- Anything of small value.
- 1761, Laurence Sterne, 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, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16
- [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.
- 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, vol. 4 (Penguin 2003, p. 223):
Translations
Anagrams
- Rivets, rivest, rivets, strive, tivers, verist
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Noun
stiver c (singular definite stiveren, plural indefinite stivere)
- brace, shore, prop
- stanchion, pillar
- rib, spoke
- strut
Inflection
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