stiver

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English

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Etymology

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From Dutch stuiver, cognate with Middle Low German stüver.

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Noun

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stiver (plural stivers)

  1. (historical, money) A small Dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder.
  2. Anything of small value.
    • 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 4, Penguin, published 2003, page 223:
      ’Tis not worth a single stiver, said the bandy-leg'd drummer.
    • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 16”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
      [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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Noun

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stiver c (singular definite stiveren, plural indefinite stivere)

  1. brace, shore, prop
  2. stanchion, pillar
  3. rib, spoke
  4. strut

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