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Claver   Listen
noun
Claver  n.  (Obs.) See Clover.



Claver  n.  Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering. (Scot. & North of Eng.) "Emmy found herself entirely at a loss in the midst of their clavers."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Claver" Quotes from Famous Books



... occasion of the Pope's Jubilee in 1887, ten cases of beatification will be decided. Three "Beati" belonging to the Jesuits will be canonized, viz.: Blessed Bergmans, Claver, and Rodriguez. The Venerable de la Salle, Clement Hofbauer, C. SS. R., and Ines de Beningain, a Spanish ...
— Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 • Various

... the wean well cared for, for the mistress remained not long abed after the spaewife's coming. Belle's wean might be "a tinker's brat" in whispered corners in byres and hay-sheds, where the wenches could claver out of hearing, but the Laird's son got no better attention than the tinker's brat when the mistress ...
— The McBrides - A Romance of Arran • John Sillars

... laces and tassels for garnysshing of diverse Bookes, price the unce xiiijd.—vijs. xd. ob.; for the making of xvj laces and xvj tassels made of the said vj unces and iij of silke, price in grete ijs. viid.' These moneys were paid to Alice Claver, a 'sylk-woman.' And again 'to Piers Bauduyn, stacioner, for bynding, gilding and dressing of a booke called "Titus Livius," xxs.; for bynding, gilding and dressing of a booke of the Holy Trinitie, xvjs.; for bynding, gilding and dressing of a booke called "Frossard," ...
— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts

... hae nae doot," he said, again stooping over the tub flinging some water over his head, and beginning to rub the soap into a fine lather upon his hair. "Everybody will ken the right wye o' it, and will claver and gossip, when they wad 'a be better to mind their ain affairs, an' let ither ...
— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh



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