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▪ I. staver, n.1 dial. and Sc.|ˈsteɪvə(r)|
In 6 stavir.
[? f. stave n.1]
1. A rung (of a ladder). Also, ‘one of the bars of a hay-rack’ (N.W. Linc. Gloss.); ‘a stake for a hedge, etc.’ (Sheffield Gloss.).
1534Eng. Ch. Furniture (Peacock 1866) 190 Item in the whete chamber a ladder of viij stavirs. 1866J. E. Brogden Prov. Lincs., Stavers, the staves or rounds of a ladder.
2. A stave (of a cask).
1891‘Hugh Haliburton’ (J. L. Robertson) Ochil Idylls 89 'Maist like an auld cask dung to stavers.
▪ II. staver, n.2 dial. and U.S.|ˈsteɪvə(r)|
[f. stave v. + -er1.]
One who is continually ‘staving’ about; an active, energetic person.
1860J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xii. (1881) 146 Oh! she's right, I tell you, and she's got one of the mothers—regular staver. 1869Mrs. Stowe Oldtown Folks x. (1870) 105 She was spoken of with applause under such titles as ‘a staver’, ‘a pealer,’ ‘a roarer to work’. 1880W. Cornw. Gloss., Staver, a fussy, noisy person. ‘She's a regular staver; she staves about from morning to night.’
▪ III. staver, n.3|ˈstævə(r)|
[f. staver v.]
In pl. (const. as sing.) The staggers = stagger n.1 2.
1597[implied in staverwort: see below]. 1639De Gray Compl. Horsem. 30 This preventeth yellowes, stavers, and such like diseases. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Guide ii. xv. (1738) 56 That Distemper which Farriers call the Stavers, or Staggers. 1749Lond. Mag. 277 A disease called the staggers, or stavers, in horses.
b. Comb.: staverwort, the plant Senecio Jacobæa, ragwort.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. xxvi. 219 Jacobea... The countrey people do call it Stagger woort, and Stauerwoort. 1707Mortimer Husb. 187 Take [of]..Staverwort..a handful. 1866Treas. Bot. 1093/2 Staverwort, Senecio Jacobæa.
▪ IV. staver, v. Chiefly Sc.|ˈsteɪvə(r)|
Also 9 staiver.
[? Alteration of stagger v., after daver.]
intr. a. To stagger (lit. and fig.). b. To wander about aimlessly or in a restless manner.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. iii. v. 797 (Cott.) Þus in seige a sote to se,..Sal ger standande statis stauer. Ibid. iv. vii. 816 Al þus in wodnes as thai waueryde And stekyt sa withe stokys staweride [v.r. stauerit]. 1755R. Forbes Ajax' Sp., Jrnl. fr. Lond. to Portsmouth 30, I was lyin tawin an' wamlin..like..a stirkie that had staver'd into a well-eye. Ibid. 50 Key, Staver'd [= ] Stagger'd. 1776C. Keith Farmer's Ha' xxxii, [The ganger] gangs just stavering about In quest o' prey. 1820Blackw. Mag. Nov. 203 So out I stavers, for rest I could na' within. 1864W. D. Latto Tam. Bodkin xix. (1894) 199, I staivered awa in, an' tauld my story. 1884Froude Carlyle's Life in Lond. I. iii. 69 He slept badly from overwork, ‘gaeing stavering aboot the hoose at night’, as the Scotch maid said, restless alike in mind and body. |