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▪ I. claver, n.1 Sc. and north dial.|ˈkleɪvə(r)|
Also claiver.
[See claver v.2]
Idle garrulous talk, to little purpose, or with little sense; an idle story, a piece of idle gossip.
(?)a1689in Scott Old Mort. xi. note, When I was entering life, there was ane Knox deaving us a' wi' his clavers, and now I am ganging out, there is ane Claver'se deaving us a' wi' his knocks. 1722–30Ramsay Parrot, Delighted with their various claver. 1787Burns Answ. Gudew. Wauchope-House i, Wi' claivers, and haivers, Wearing the day awa. 1819Carlyle Early Lett. (Norton) I. 230 This is all claver, but it pleases one. 1822Scott Pirate II. 180 To carry clashes and clavers up and down. Mod. Sc. ‘Muckle claver and little corn,’ said of pulpit eloquence that has little edifying in it; with pun on claver, clover.
▪ II. † ˈclaver, n.2 Obs. rare.
[? Meant for clavier, though hardly in the same sense.]
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. iv. Columnes (1605) i. 493 Where, as by Art one selfly blast breath'd out From panting bellowes, passeth all-about Winde-Instruments; enters by th' under Clauers Which with the Keyes the Organ-Maister quauers.
▪ III. claver, n.3
obs. form of clover n.
▪ IV. claver, n.4
obs. form of cleavers.
▪ V. † ˈclaver, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈklævə(r)|
Also 5–6 cleuer.
[First found in 13th c.; cf. Da. klavre to climb, clamber, and mod.Du. klaveren, kleveren, LG. klauern, in same sense; ON. had klifra to climb. All these are regarded as frequentatives, from the vb.-root klif-, kliv-, in OTeut. kliƀ- to stick, adhere, hence to climb. Cf. also ME. cleafer, OE. clifer, claw, talon.]
intr. To climb, clamber. (Some take it in first quot. as = clutch, claw.)
a1225Ancr. R. 102 Hweðer þe cat of helle claurede euer toward hire, & cauhte, mid his cleafres, hire heorte heaued. a1400Morte Arth. 3325 Two kynges ware clymbande, and claverande one heghe. 1423Jas. I. King's Q. clix. A quhele, on quhich cleuering I sye A multitude of folk before myn eye. 1647M. Hudson Div. Right Govt. Ep. Ded. 1 Subjects are clavered up into the Kings Throne, and the King debased below..a free-born subject. 1876Mid-Yorksh. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Clavver, to clamber.
▪ VI. claver, v.2 Sc. and north. dial.|ˈkleɪvə(r)|
[Of uncertain origin. Somewhat similar are Gaelic clabaire, clabhraichean babbler; also obs. Du. kalaberen ‘inter se in utramque partem de variis rebus otiose suaves iucundosque sermones conferre’ (Kilian); and Ger. klaffern, kläffern, ‘garrulare’, to chatter, blab, (‘viel schweigen ist kunst, viel kläffern bringt ungunst’). The last agrees best in sense, but it is not easy to conceive how, being a High German word, it could have been adopted in Scotland c 1600.]
intr. To talk idly, or with little sense; to gossip, palaver, prate.
a1605[see clavering]. a1715Sc. Pasquils (1868) 395 When ye clatter then, and claver, Ye sprinkle all their necks with slaver. 1815Scott Guy M. xxii, ‘Clavering about thae auldwarld stories.’ 1818― Hrt. Midl. xx, ‘A worthy minister, as gude a man..as ever ye heard claver in a pu'pit.’ 1850James Old Oak Chest III. 14 ‘I'm no given to clavering of other people's concerns.’ 1876Whitby Gloss. (E.D.S.), Clavver, to contend, to chatter.
Hence ˈclaverer, one who clavers, a babbler; ˈclavering ppl. a.
1606tr. Rollock on 2 Thess. 140 (Jam.) Busie bodies, clauerers, and pratlers. a1605Montgomerie Flyting 617 An clauering cohoobie. 1722–30Ramsay Fables, Clock & Dial, Ne'er brag of constant clavering cant. 1816Scott Old Mort. vii, ‘A lang-tongued clavering wife.’ 1822― Nigel v, K. James: Haud your clavering tongue. |