havern.¹

Brit.

/ˈhavə/, U.S.

/ˈhævər/

Forms: see have v. and -er suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: have v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < have v. + -er suffix¹.Compare Old English hæbbend owner, possessor, wealthy person ( < have v. + -end suffix¹) and -hafa in wanhafa poor man ( < wan- prefix + the base of have v.).

1. A person who has something (in various senses); (in early use) esp. an owner, a possessor. Chiefly (esp. in later use) with of or as the second element in compounds.Recorded earliest in the Old English compound sulhhæbbere ploughman, lit. ‘plough-holder’ (compare sullow n.), rendering post-classical Latin stivarius (also as stibarius).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > possessor > [noun]

havereOE

holderc1350

possessionerc1384

mastera1393

possessorc1425

possessiantc1540

possident1610

havea1739

tenanter1798

have-got1897

eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in J. J. Quinn Minor Lat.-Old Eng. Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1956) 118 Stibarius, sulhhæbbere.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xxv. 28 Þe biggere shal haue þat he bouȝte vnto þe Iubylee ȝeer, in þat forsoþe al byggynge shal torne aȝeyn to þe lord & to þe raþer hauere [L. possessorem pristinum].

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 153 Thou maist not seie that hauers and vsers of ymagis ben ydolatrers.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 9 (MED) To selle is þe hauer to ȝeue his þing for price tane.

1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. C.iij The hauer or the owner gouerneth somtyme a genytyue case of the thynge that is had.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 32^v He taught true..vertue, whiche dooeth specially aboue all other thynges commende and sette out y^e hauer.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. ii. 85 It is held, That Valour is the chiefest Vertue, And most dignifies the hauer .

1654 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1938) VIII. 376 To the great preyjudice of the haveris of the saids species of money.

1728 in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 199 Havers thereof shall be liable in ane pecuniarie punishment.

1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess iii. 116 Her at all hazards we intend to claim, An' on the havers of her, fix the blame.

1852 Househ. Words 12 June 300/1 The distinction between the two classes of havers and non-havers of land, has given rise to terrible feuds.

1905 C. B. Loomis Minerva's Manœuvres xxxiv. 413 ‘Oh, you treasure of an idea-haver,’ said Ethel.

1908 W. D. Ross tr. Aristotle Metaphysica v. xx, in J. A. Smith Wks. Aristotle VIII. 1022 Having means..a kind of activity of the haver and the had.

1944 C. M. Case Ess. Soc. Values 50 This time binder, memory holder, experience haver, status seeker, ideal cherisher remains always the same.

2005 J. Vandever Brontë Project (2006) 149 She was a haver of affairs, not a carrier of torches.

2. Scots Law. A person in possession of something, esp. a document, required for legal proceedings.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal document > [noun] > one who has possession of

hamperman1526

havera1583

a1583 J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 188 The haver of ane manis evidentis may be chargit to deliver the samin within sax dayis to the awner.

1638 in T. Thomson Acts & Proc. Kirk of Scotl. (1845) III. App. p. xviii That all the Registers might be..brought foorth from the hand of any clerk or haver of them.

1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. II. iii. viii. 373 The apparent heir may..pursue against havers, i.e. custodiars or possessors, exhibition of all writings pertaining to the defunct.

1795 A. Balfour Addit. Petition 16 It was competent to have examined the Earl as a haver, in order to recover out of his hands, receipts from the Crown.

1837 Act 7 William IV & 1 Victoria c. 41 §3 The officer summoning parties, witnesses, or havers.

1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 100 §19 Any witness or haver requiring to be cited to attend said Court.

1916 J. A. MacLaren Court of Session Pract. 515 Where a warrant to cite witnesses or havers resident in Scotland is required, a motion should be made to the Lord Ordinary.

1994 Act of Sederunt (Rules of Court of Session) (Statutory Instrument No. 1443) Schedule ii. 35.3 The date on which the order, and any document recovered is received from a haver by the Deputy Principal Clerk.

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havern.²

Brit.

/ˈheɪvə/, U.S.

/ˈheɪvər/, Scottish English

/ˈhevər/

Forms: Middle English aver, Middle English hafyr, Middle English hauir, Middle English hauyr, Middle English hauyre, Middle English havur, Middle English havyr, Middle English hawer, Middle English–1500s hauer, Middle English– haver, 1500s hayver; English regional (northern) 1800s hauber, 1800s havre (Cumberland), 1800s– aver (Yorkshire), 1800s– haber, 1800s– havver; Scottish pre-1700 1800s– haver, 1700s havour, 1800s– hauver, 1800s– heffer, 1800s– hever, 1900s– hauber.

Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian.

Etymology: < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic hafrar (only in plural), Old Swedish hafre (Swedish havre ), Old Danish hafri (Danish havre )), cognate with Old Saxon haƀoro , havoro (Middle Low German hāver ), Middle Dutch haver (Dutch haver ), Old High German habaro (Middle High German habere , haber , German Haber (now regional: southern), German Hafer ), further etymology uncertain, perhaps < the same Germanic base as Old English hæfer goat (see heather-bleat n.), with reference to the grain being used as fodder, or perhaps a borrowing from an unidentified language.Compare the superficially similar, but apparently unrelated Old Gutnish hagri , Old Swedish hagre oat (although this is sometimes taken to be a variant of hafre ), apparently < the same base as Early Irish corca oat, Welsh ceirch (plural) oats, further etymology unknown. The English word could, on formal grounds, be a cognate of the other Germanic words, but its consistent geographical distribution, especially in early use, suggests a Scandinavian origin. The usual Old English word for the plant and its grain was āte oat n. Attested earlier in place names, as Hauerhol , Suffolk (1086; also as Hauerhella ; now Haverhill), Hauerholm , Lincolnshire (1171; now Haverholme), and probably also Hafrebrec , Westmorland (a1130; late 11th cent. as Halfrebrek ; now Haverbrack), all from regions of Scandinavian influence. Also attested earlier in surnames; compare examples cited at havercake n.

Chiefly English regional (northern) and Scottish. Now rare.

1. Cultivated oats ( Avena sativa); the grain of oats, either whole or ground.Recorded earliest in haverman n. at Compounds 2, haver-barn n. at Compounds 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > oats

oateOE

haver1305

oat seed1531

white oats1675

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > oats

oateOE

haver1305

1305–6 Close Roll, 34 Edward I (P.R.O.: C 54/123) m. 3 dorso (schedule) Seisinam seruiciorum & consuetudinorum Custumariorum subscriptorum qui vocantur Hauermen.

1371 Assignment Dower (P.R.O.: C 135/220/15) Quandam partem cuiusdam magne grangie que vocatur le hauerberne videlicet ab hostio dicte grangie vsque ad finem euisdem grangie versus occidentem.

c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 29 Tak hauyr & parche it wele in a panne.

a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 726/19 Hec avena, hafyr.

1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 30^v, in Bulwarke of Defence In the Northe it is called Hauer: the Southerne people Otes.

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 54 22 stooks of large or loggery haver will bee a sufficient loade.

1674 in H. Wood Coll. Decrees Court Exchequer in Tithe-Causes (1798) 139 The said plaintiffs shall forthwith pay to the said lessee the value of their said tithes of haver and oatmeal in arrear.

1775 J. Watson Hist. Halifax 539 Haver, Oats.

1798 H. Wood Coll. Decrees Court Exchequer in Tithe-causes I. 139 They [sc. the plaintiffs]..have, time out of mind, paid, and ought to pay, their haver or oatmeal in lieu of their tithes.

1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 109 I mun off to deetin havver.

1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. x. 303 The hay, straw, barley and haver, were eaten away.

1903 Transvaal Agric. Jrnl. Apr. 63/1 A large quantity of Algerian oats will be sown owing to the scarcity of the Boer Haver.

1951 Boys' Life Feb. 24/2 In Scotland, haver still means oats, and you can get haverbread or oatbread there.

2. Wild oats ( Avena fatua).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > wild oat

oateOE

wild oat?a1500

haver1684

Tartary oat1790

onion twitch1875

onion couch1880

onion grass1880

1684 R. Sibbald Scotl. Illustr. i. ii. vi. 24 Bearded wild Oats, or Haver.

1732 J. Martyn tr. J. P. de Tournefort Hist. Plants Paris I. 94 Bearded wild Oats or Haver. This is a very troublesome weed amongst the Corn.

1806 J. Galpine Synoptical Compend Brit. Bot. 40 Wild oat or haver.

1810 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. XXXI. 2221 (heading) Wild Oat, or Haver..A pernicious weed in corn fields.

1855 Farmer's Mag. June 477/2 The ‘wild oat’, or ‘haver’, the Avena fatua of botany, is not uncommon as a weed on badly cultivated soils.

1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land xiii. 208 Avena fatua..Bearded oat, drake, flaver, haver, [etc.].

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

† haver-barn n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1371Hauerberne [see sense 1].

1466–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 154 Super le Haverbarne infra manerium.

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 54 The furthest roomestead in the haver-barne next the East.

haver-straw n. [compare Middle Low German hāverstrō, Middle High German haberstrō (German Haferstroh)]

ΚΠ

c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 5 Take & make lee of hauyre straa.

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 154 Bands..made of the smallest haver-strawe,..first well twined, and after that twined togeather againe after the manner of a two plette.

1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 154 To hurkle down on a heap o' haver straw.

1849 F. T. Dinsdale Gloss. Provinc. Words Teesdale Haver-stre-a, oat straw.

1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 166 Haver-strae, straw of oats.

C2.

haver-bannock n. a round, flat loaf made from oatmeal; cf. bannock n. 1, haverbread n. Sc. National Dict. (at Haver) records this word as still in use in Dumfriesshire in 1956.

ΚΠ

1797 F. M. Eden State of Poor I. ii. ii. 564 The usual treat for a stranger, 50 years ago, in Cumberland, was a thick oat-cake, (called haver-bannock,) and butter.

a1804 A. Wheeler Westmorland Dial. (1821) 114 Havver bannock, cald dumplin, and a potatoe pie.

1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 94 Our Ellek likes fat bacon weel, And havver-bannock pleases Dick.

1875 W. Dickinson Cumbriana 214 Hard havver bannock so thick.

haver-malt n. [compare Middle Low German hāvermolt , early modern German habermalcz (1507 or earlier); compare earlier oat-malt n. at oat n. Compounds 2] malt prepared from oats.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > malting > [noun] > malt > other types of malt

oat-malt?a1425

haver-malt1569

black malt1628

1569 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 218 In the kilne garner... xxviij. bushells haver molte.

1572 Inv. in T. D. Whitaker Craven (1812) 332 lx quart of haver-malte, at viii s. the quarter.

1624 in G. Ornsby Select. from Househ. Bks. Naworth Castle (1878) 217 xlj bushells of haver malt.

1685 G. Meriton York-shire Dialogue in Praise of York-shire Ale 83 Thou's lang a coming, thou braids of Haver Maut.

1866 J. Sykes Local Rec. Northumberland & Durham (new ed.) II. 79 There was a great scarcity of grain at Durham, wheat 16s. 4d. the bushel;..haver-malt 5s. 6d.

a1919 W. B. Kendall Forness Word Bk. (Cumbria County Archives, Barrow) (transcript of MS) Haver mote, malt made from oats. ‘As slaa as haver mote.’

† haverman n. Obsolete rare a person who cultivates or sells oats.

ΚΠ

1305-6Havermen [see sense 1].

1324–5 Close Roll, 18 Edward II (P.R.O.: C 54/142) m. 7 dorso Villanorum qui vocantur Melmen Barlymen & Hauermen.

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havern.³

Brit.

/ˈheɪvə/, U.S.

/ˈheɪvər/, Scottish English

/ˈhevər/

Forms: 1700s– haiver, 1800s haever, 1800s– haver.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: haver v.

Etymology: Apparently < haver v. Compare earlier claver n.¹Scots regional (Shetland) haivers (plural) deportment, behaviour, manner (a1873) is probably unrelated (apparently the same word as haviour n. (compare sense 2 at that entry)); compare also (Shetland) haeverless ill-mannered (a1873), (Orkney and Shetland) ill-hyver awkward behaviour (1866).

Scottish.

1. Foolish talk, idle chatter, gossip; nonsense, rubbish. Usually in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun]

windc1290

trotevalea1300

follyc1300

jangle1340

jangleryc1374

tongue1382

fablec1384

clapa1420

babbling?c1430

clackc1440

pratinga1470

waste?a1475

clattera1500

trattle1513

babble?a1525

tattlea1529

tittle-tattlea1529

chatc1530

babblery1532

bibble-babble1532

slaverings1535

trittle-trattle1563

prate?1574

babblement1595

pribble-prabble1595

pribble1603

morologya1614

pibble-pabblea1616

sounda1616

spitter-spatter1619

argology1623

vaniloquence1623

vaniloquy1623

drivelling1637

jabberment1645

blateration1656

onology1670

whittie-whattiea1687

stultiloquence1721

claver1722

blether1786

havera1796

jaunder1796

havering1808

slaver1825

yatter1827

bugaboo1833

flapdoodle1834

bavardage1835

maunder1835

tattlement1837

slabber1840

gup1848

faddle1850

chatter1851

cock1851

drivel1852

maundering1853

drooling1854

windbaggery1859

blither1866

javer1869

mush1876

slobber1886

guff1888

squit1893

drool1900

macaroni1924

jive1928

natter1943

shtick1948

old talk1956

yack1958

yackety-yack1958

ole talk1964

Haigspeak1981

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 326 With clavers and haivers Wearing the time awa'.

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. x. 210 Dinna deave the gentleman wi' your havers.

1880 W. T. Dennison Orcadian Sketch-bk. 99 Noo, lass, I'll tell thee Johnnie Wa's May blaw thee up wi' sleek an' haever.

1903 S. Macplowter Mrs. McCraw 28 Ef ye hedna kep' us in sae lang, wi' yer haivers, A wid hae been hame tae keep her frae gutsin'.

1991 E. McDonald Gangan Fuit 16 Listenan tae the uncoguid an aa their havers wi'oot a vision loupan up o puttan stots.

2006 P. McIntosh Merchant's Mark (2008) ix. 208 ‘It was a' havers,’ said William... ‘You don't need a key to seal a barrel.’

2. Something foolish or insignificant; a piece of nonsense. Now somewhat rare.

ΚΠ

1806 A. Douglas Poems 37 What use is Hebrew to a weaver? 'Twill no ae plack avail you ever; A' men o' sense will ca't a haver.

1896 J. M. Barrie Margaret Ogilvy vii. 141 It's a haver of a book.

1931 Banffshire Jrnl. 21 Apr. 5 Hoot, fat a haiver's this we hear!

1983 W. L. Lorimer & R. L. C. Lorimer New Test. in Scots 1 Corinth. i. 283 We preach Christ crucified, whilk is a scunner tae the Jews an a haiver tae the paugans.

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haverv.

Brit.

/ˈheɪvə/, U.S.

/ˈheɪvər/, Scottish English

/ˈhevər/

Forms: 1700s havrin' (present participle), 1700s– haver, 1800s haever, 1800s hyver (Shetland), 1800s– haiver.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps an imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps imitative. Compare earlier claver v.² and also Scots habber to stammer, to talk incessantly and repetitively (1808). In sense 2 perhaps influenced by waver v. Compare earlier havering adj. and haverel n.

1. intransitive. Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). To talk foolishly or inconsequentially; to talk nonsense; to blather, ramble; to chatter, gossip. Frequently with on, about.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)]

chattera1250

drivelc1390

clatter1401

chatc1440

smattera1450

pratec1460

blaver1461

babble?1504

blether1524

boblec1530

trattlea1555

tittle-tattle1556

fable1579

tinkle1638

whiffle1706

slaver1730

doitera1790

jaunder1808

haver1816

maunder1816

blather1825

yatter1825

blat1846

bibble-babble1888

flap-doodle1893

twiddle1893

spiel1894

rot1896

blither1903

to run off at the mouth1908

drool1923

twiddle-twaddle1925

crap1940

natter1942

yack1950

yacker1961

yacket1969

1776 Weekly Mag. 25 Jan. 145 Troth, Branky, man, I hinna faul't my een Since here I left you havrin' late the streen.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xv. 332 He just havered on about it to make the mair o' Sir Arthur.

1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Haver, Haiver, to talk foolishly, to speak without thought.

1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds xxi. 188 But I have nae time the night to haever wi' you.

1881 G. T. Chesney Private Secret. II. xix. 148 Hilda shuddered as her father havered on.

1907 N. Munro Bud xxvii. 259 ‘The sweetest in the world!’ cried Auntie Bell. ‘I wonder to hear you haivering.’

1943 Scots Mag. May 129 Yin o' Scotland's great race o' engineers that the writers write aboot an' the orators haver aboot.

1988 C. Reid & C. Reid I'm gonna be (500 Miles) (song) in Proclaimers Sunshine on Leith (record sleeve notes) And if I haver, yeah I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you.

2009 I. Welsh Reheated Cabbage 260 Lawson eyed and pawed at her in lewd obscenity as he havered on. It was as well she probably couldn't understand a word he was saying.

2. intransitive. Chiefly British (originally Scottish). To behave indecisively or hesitantly; to vacillate between opinions or courses of action; to waver, dither.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)]

haltc825

flecchec1300

waverc1315

flickerc1325

wag1387

swervea1400

floghter1521

stacker1526

to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530

wave1532

stagger1533

to hang in the wind1536

to waver as, like, with the wind1548

mammer1554

sway1563

dodge1568

erch1584

suspend1585

float1598

swag1608

hoverc1620

hesitate1623

vacillate1623

fluctuate1634

demur1641

balance1656

to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674

to stand shall I, shall I1674

to go shill-I shall-I1700

to stand at shilly-shally1700

to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734

whiffle1737

dilly-dally1740

to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751

oscillate1771

shilly-shally1782

dacker1817

librate1822

humdrum1825

swing1833

(to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848

to back and fill1854

haver1866

wobble1867

shaffle1873

dicker1879

to be on the weigh-scales1886

waffle1894

to think twice1898

to teeter on the brink1902

dither1908

vagulate1918

pern1920

1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 73 Ye needna be haiverin' that wye aboot gain' haim..wee the lassie. A ken ye like 'ir.

1919 M. Diver Strong Hours iii. 83 You've been havering long enough; and I gather that my proposal—broadly speaking—is not distasteful to you?

1955 J. Bayley In Another Country 75 It was a classic moment for polite havering, but the sensible girl did not haver: he was holding the front door open and she climbed in without more ado.

2013 Express (Nexis) 1 Mar. 15 Over 20 years successive governments havered and dithered over nuclear reactor replacement.

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n.¹eOE

n.²1305

n.³a1796

v.1776

单词	haver
释义	havern.¹ Brit. /ˈhavə/, U.S. /ˈhævər/ Forms: see have v. and -er suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: have v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < have v. + -er suffix¹.Compare Old English hæbbend owner, possessor, wealthy person ( < have v. + -end suffix¹) and -hafa in wanhafa poor man ( < wan- prefix + the base of have v.). 1. A person who has something (in various senses); (in early use) esp. an owner, a possessor. Chiefly (esp. in later use) with of or as the second element in compounds.Recorded earliest in the Old English compound sulhhæbbere ploughman, lit. ‘plough-holder’ (compare sullow n.), rendering post-classical Latin stivarius (also as stibarius). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] havereOE holderc1350 possessionerc1384 mastera1393 possessorc1425 possessiantc1540 possident1610 havea1739 tenanter1798 have-got1897 eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in J. J. Quinn Minor Lat.-Old Eng. Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1956) 118 Stibarius, sulhhæbbere. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xxv. 28 Þe biggere shal haue þat he bouȝte vnto þe Iubylee ȝeer, in þat forsoþe al byggynge shal torne aȝeyn to þe lord & to þe raþer hauere [L. possessorem pristinum]. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 153 Thou maist not seie that hauers and vsers of ymagis ben ydolatrers. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 9 (MED) To selle is þe hauer to ȝeue his þing for price tane. 1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. C.iij The hauer or the owner gouerneth somtyme a genytyue case of the thynge that is had. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 32^v He taught true..vertue, whiche dooeth specially aboue all other thynges commende and sette out y^e hauer. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. ii. 85 It is held, That Valour is the chiefest Vertue, And most dignifies the hauer . View more context for this quotation 1654 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1938) VIII. 376 To the great preyjudice of the haveris of the saids species of money. 1728 in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 199 Havers thereof shall be liable in ane pecuniarie punishment. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess iii. 116 Her at all hazards we intend to claim, An' on the havers of her, fix the blame. 1852 Househ. Words 12 June 300/1 The distinction between the two classes of havers and non-havers of land, has given rise to terrible feuds. 1905 C. B. Loomis Minerva's Manœuvres xxxiv. 413 ‘Oh, you treasure of an idea-haver,’ said Ethel. 1908 W. D. Ross tr. Aristotle Metaphysica v. xx, in J. A. Smith Wks. Aristotle VIII. 1022 Having means..a kind of activity of the haver and the had. 1944 C. M. Case Ess. Soc. Values 50 This time binder, memory holder, experience haver, status seeker, ideal cherisher remains always the same. 2005 J. Vandever Brontë Project (2006) 149 She was a haver of affairs, not a carrier of torches. 2. Scots Law. A person in possession of something, esp. a document, required for legal proceedings. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal document > [noun] > one who has possession of hamperman1526 havera1583 a1583 J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 188 The haver of ane manis evidentis may be chargit to deliver the samin within sax dayis to the awner. 1638 in T. Thomson Acts & Proc. Kirk of Scotl. (1845) III. App. p. xviii That all the Registers might be..brought foorth from the hand of any clerk or haver of them. 1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. II. iii. viii. 373 The apparent heir may..pursue against havers, i.e. custodiars or possessors, exhibition of all writings pertaining to the defunct. 1795 A. Balfour Addit. Petition 16 It was competent to have examined the Earl as a haver, in order to recover out of his hands, receipts from the Crown. 1837 Act 7 William IV & 1 Victoria c. 41 §3 The officer summoning parties, witnesses, or havers. 1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 100 §19 Any witness or haver requiring to be cited to attend said Court. 1916 J. A. MacLaren Court of Session Pract. 515 Where a warrant to cite witnesses or havers resident in Scotland is required, a motion should be made to the Lord Ordinary. 1994 Act of Sederunt (Rules of Court of Session) (Statutory Instrument No. 1443) Schedule ii. 35.3 The date on which the order, and any document recovered is received from a haver by the Deputy Principal Clerk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). havern.² Brit. /ˈheɪvə/, U.S. /ˈheɪvər/, Scottish English /ˈhevər/ Forms: Middle English aver, Middle English hafyr, Middle English hauir, Middle English hauyr, Middle English hauyre, Middle English havur, Middle English havyr, Middle English hawer, Middle English–1500s hauer, Middle English– haver, 1500s hayver; English regional (northern) 1800s hauber, 1800s havre (Cumberland), 1800s– aver (Yorkshire), 1800s– haber, 1800s– havver; Scottish pre-1700 1800s– haver, 1700s havour, 1800s– hauver, 1800s– heffer, 1800s– hever, 1900s– hauber. Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic hafrar (only in plural), Old Swedish hafre (Swedish havre ), Old Danish hafri (Danish havre )), cognate with Old Saxon haƀoro , havoro (Middle Low German hāver ), Middle Dutch haver (Dutch haver ), Old High German habaro (Middle High German habere , haber , German Haber (now regional: southern), German Hafer ), further etymology uncertain, perhaps < the same Germanic base as Old English hæfer goat (see heather-bleat n.), with reference to the grain being used as fodder, or perhaps a borrowing from an unidentified language.Compare the superficially similar, but apparently unrelated Old Gutnish hagri , Old Swedish hagre oat (although this is sometimes taken to be a variant of hafre ), apparently < the same base as Early Irish corca oat, Welsh ceirch (plural) oats, further etymology unknown. The English word could, on formal grounds, be a cognate of the other Germanic words, but its consistent geographical distribution, especially in early use, suggests a Scandinavian origin. The usual Old English word for the plant and its grain was āte oat n. Attested earlier in place names, as Hauerhol , Suffolk (1086; also as Hauerhella ; now Haverhill), Hauerholm , Lincolnshire (1171; now Haverholme), and probably also Hafrebrec , Westmorland (a1130; late 11th cent. as Halfrebrek ; now Haverbrack), all from regions of Scandinavian influence. Also attested earlier in surnames; compare examples cited at havercake n. Chiefly English regional (northern) and Scottish. Now rare. 1. Cultivated oats ( Avena sativa); the grain of oats, either whole or ground.Recorded earliest in haverman n. at Compounds 2, haver-barn n. at Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > oats oateOE haver1305 oat seed1531 white oats1675 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > oats oateOE haver1305 1305–6 Close Roll, 34 Edward I (P.R.O.: C 54/123) m. 3 dorso (schedule) Seisinam seruiciorum & consuetudinorum Custumariorum subscriptorum qui vocantur Hauermen. 1371 Assignment Dower (P.R.O.: C 135/220/15) Quandam partem cuiusdam magne grangie que vocatur le hauerberne videlicet ab hostio dicte grangie vsque ad finem euisdem grangie versus occidentem. c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 29 Tak hauyr & parche it wele in a panne. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 726/19 Hec avena, hafyr. 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 30^v, in Bulwarke of Defence In the Northe it is called Hauer: the Southerne people Otes. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 54 22 stooks of large or loggery haver will bee a sufficient loade. 1674 in H. Wood Coll. Decrees Court Exchequer in Tithe-Causes (1798) 139 The said plaintiffs shall forthwith pay to the said lessee the value of their said tithes of haver and oatmeal in arrear. 1775 J. Watson Hist. Halifax 539 Haver, Oats. 1798 H. Wood Coll. Decrees Court Exchequer in Tithe-causes I. 139 They [sc. the plaintiffs]..have, time out of mind, paid, and ought to pay, their haver or oatmeal in lieu of their tithes. 1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 109 I mun off to deetin havver. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. x. 303 The hay, straw, barley and haver, were eaten away. 1903 Transvaal Agric. Jrnl. Apr. 63/1 A large quantity of Algerian oats will be sown owing to the scarcity of the Boer Haver. 1951 Boys' Life Feb. 24/2 In Scotland, haver still means oats, and you can get haverbread or oatbread there. 2. Wild oats ( Avena fatua). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > wild oat oateOE wild oat?a1500 haver1684 Tartary oat1790 onion twitch1875 onion couch1880 onion grass1880 1684 R. Sibbald Scotl. Illustr. i. ii. vi. 24 Bearded wild Oats, or Haver. 1732 J. Martyn tr. J. P. de Tournefort Hist. Plants Paris I. 94 Bearded wild Oats or Haver. This is a very troublesome weed amongst the Corn. 1806 J. Galpine Synoptical Compend Brit. Bot. 40 Wild oat or haver. 1810 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. XXXI. 2221 (heading) Wild Oat, or Haver..A pernicious weed in corn fields. 1855 Farmer's Mag. June 477/2 The ‘wild oat’, or ‘haver’, the Avena fatua of botany, is not uncommon as a weed on badly cultivated soils. 1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land xiii. 208 Avena fatua..Bearded oat, drake, flaver, haver, [etc.]. Compounds C1. General attributive. † haver-barn n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1371Hauerberne [see sense 1]. 1466–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 154 Super le Haverbarne infra manerium. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 54 The furthest roomestead in the haver-barne next the East. haver-straw n. [compare Middle Low German hāverstrō, Middle High German haberstrō (German Haferstroh)] ΚΠ c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 5 Take & make lee of hauyre straa. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 154 Bands..made of the smallest haver-strawe,..first well twined, and after that twined togeather againe after the manner of a two plette. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 154 To hurkle down on a heap o' haver straw. 1849 F. T. Dinsdale Gloss. Provinc. Words Teesdale Haver-stre-a, oat straw. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 166 Haver-strae, straw of oats. C2. haver-bannock n. a round, flat loaf made from oatmeal; cf. bannock n. 1, haverbread n. Sc. National Dict. (at Haver) records this word as still in use in Dumfriesshire in 1956. ΚΠ 1797 F. M. Eden State of Poor I. ii. ii. 564 The usual treat for a stranger, 50 years ago, in Cumberland, was a thick oat-cake, (called haver-bannock,) and butter. a1804 A. Wheeler Westmorland Dial. (1821) 114 Havver bannock, cald dumplin, and a potatoe pie. 1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 94 Our Ellek likes fat bacon weel, And havver-bannock pleases Dick. 1875 W. Dickinson Cumbriana 214 Hard havver bannock so thick. haver-malt n. [compare Middle Low German hāvermolt , early modern German habermalcz (1507 or earlier); compare earlier oat-malt n. at oat n. Compounds 2] malt prepared from oats. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > malting > [noun] > malt > other types of malt oat-malt?a1425 haver-malt1569 black malt1628 1569 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 218 In the kilne garner... xxviij. bushells haver molte. 1572 Inv. in T. D. Whitaker Craven (1812) 332 lx quart of haver-malte, at viii s. the quarter. 1624 in G. Ornsby Select. from Househ. Bks. Naworth Castle (1878) 217 xlj bushells of haver malt. 1685 G. Meriton York-shire Dialogue in Praise of York-shire Ale 83 Thou's lang a coming, thou braids of Haver Maut. 1866 J. Sykes Local Rec. Northumberland & Durham (new ed.) II. 79 There was a great scarcity of grain at Durham, wheat 16s. 4d. the bushel;..haver-malt 5s. 6d. a1919 W. B. Kendall Forness Word Bk. (Cumbria County Archives, Barrow) (transcript of MS) Haver mote, malt made from oats. ‘As slaa as haver mote.’ † haverman n. Obsolete rare a person who cultivates or sells oats. ΚΠ 1305-6Havermen [see sense 1]. 1324–5 Close Roll, 18 Edward II (P.R.O.: C 54/142) m. 7 dorso Villanorum qui vocantur Melmen Barlymen & Hauermen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). havern.³ Brit. /ˈheɪvə/, U.S. /ˈheɪvər/, Scottish English /ˈhevər/ Forms: 1700s– haiver, 1800s haever, 1800s– haver. Origin: Apparently formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: haver v. Etymology: Apparently < haver v. Compare earlier claver n.¹Scots regional (Shetland) haivers (plural) deportment, behaviour, manner (a1873) is probably unrelated (apparently the same word as haviour n. (compare sense 2 at that entry)); compare also (Shetland) haeverless ill-mannered (a1873), (Orkney and Shetland) ill-hyver awkward behaviour (1866). Scottish. 1. Foolish talk, idle chatter, gossip; nonsense, rubbish. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] windc1290 trotevalea1300 follyc1300 jangle1340 jangleryc1374 tongue1382 fablec1384 clapa1420 babbling?c1430 clackc1440 pratinga1470 waste?a1475 clattera1500 trattle1513 babble?a1525 tattlea1529 tittle-tattlea1529 chatc1530 babblery1532 bibble-babble1532 slaverings1535 trittle-trattle1563 prate?1574 babblement1595 pribble-prabble1595 pribble1603 morologya1614 pibble-pabblea1616 sounda1616 spitter-spatter1619 argology1623 vaniloquence1623 vaniloquy1623 drivelling1637 jabberment1645 blateration1656 onology1670 whittie-whattiea1687 stultiloquence1721 claver1722 blether1786 havera1796 jaunder1796 havering1808 slaver1825 yatter1827 bugaboo1833 flapdoodle1834 bavardage1835 maunder1835 tattlement1837 slabber1840 gup1848 faddle1850 chatter1851 cock1851 drivel1852 maundering1853 drooling1854 windbaggery1859 blither1866 javer1869 mush1876 slobber1886 guff1888 squit1893 drool1900 macaroni1924 jive1928 natter1943 shtick1948 old talk1956 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 ole talk1964 Haigspeak1981 a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 326 With clavers and haivers Wearing the time awa'. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. x. 210 Dinna deave the gentleman wi' your havers. 1880 W. T. Dennison Orcadian Sketch-bk. 99 Noo, lass, I'll tell thee Johnnie Wa's May blaw thee up wi' sleek an' haever. 1903 S. Macplowter Mrs. McCraw 28 Ef ye hedna kep' us in sae lang, wi' yer haivers, A wid hae been hame tae keep her frae gutsin'. 1991 E. McDonald Gangan Fuit 16 Listenan tae the uncoguid an aa their havers wi'oot a vision loupan up o puttan stots. 2006 P. McIntosh Merchant's Mark (2008) ix. 208 ‘It was a' havers,’ said William... ‘You don't need a key to seal a barrel.’ 2. Something foolish or insignificant; a piece of nonsense. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ 1806 A. Douglas Poems 37 What use is Hebrew to a weaver? 'Twill no ae plack avail you ever; A' men o' sense will ca't a haver. 1896 J. M. Barrie Margaret Ogilvy vii. 141 It's a haver of a book. 1931 Banffshire Jrnl. 21 Apr. 5 Hoot, fat a haiver's this we hear! 1983 W. L. Lorimer & R. L. C. Lorimer New Test. in Scots 1 Corinth. i. 283 We preach Christ crucified, whilk is a scunner tae the Jews an a haiver tae the paugans. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). haverv. Brit. /ˈheɪvə/, U.S. /ˈheɪvər/, Scottish English /ˈhevər/ Forms: 1700s havrin' (present participle), 1700s– haver, 1800s haever, 1800s hyver (Shetland), 1800s– haiver. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps an imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps imitative. Compare earlier claver v.² and also Scots habber to stammer, to talk incessantly and repetitively (1808). In sense 2 perhaps influenced by waver v. Compare earlier havering adj. and haverel n. 1. intransitive. Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). To talk foolishly or inconsequentially; to talk nonsense; to blather, ramble; to chatter, gossip. Frequently with on, about. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)] chattera1250 drivelc1390 clatter1401 chatc1440 smattera1450 pratec1460 blaver1461 babble?1504 blether1524 boblec1530 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 fable1579 tinkle1638 whiffle1706 slaver1730 doitera1790 jaunder1808 haver1816 maunder1816 blather1825 yatter1825 blat1846 bibble-babble1888 flap-doodle1893 twiddle1893 spiel1894 rot1896 blither1903 to run off at the mouth1908 drool1923 twiddle-twaddle1925 crap1940 natter1942 yack1950 yacker1961 yacket1969 1776 Weekly Mag. 25 Jan. 145 Troth, Branky, man, I hinna faul't my een Since here I left you havrin' late the streen. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xv. 332 He just havered on about it to make the mair o' Sir Arthur. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Haver, Haiver, to talk foolishly, to speak without thought. 1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds xxi. 188 But I have nae time the night to haever wi' you. 1881 G. T. Chesney Private Secret. II. xix. 148 Hilda shuddered as her father havered on. 1907 N. Munro Bud xxvii. 259 ‘The sweetest in the world!’ cried Auntie Bell. ‘I wonder to hear you haivering.’ 1943 Scots Mag. May 129 Yin o' Scotland's great race o' engineers that the writers write aboot an' the orators haver aboot. 1988 C. Reid & C. Reid I'm gonna be (500 Miles) (song) in Proclaimers Sunshine on Leith (record sleeve notes) And if I haver, yeah I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you. 2009 I. Welsh Reheated Cabbage 260 Lawson eyed and pawed at her in lewd obscenity as he havered on. It was as well she probably couldn't understand a word he was saying. 2. intransitive. Chiefly British (originally Scottish). To behave indecisively or hesitantly; to vacillate between opinions or courses of action; to waver, dither. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] haltc825 flecchec1300 waverc1315 flickerc1325 wag1387 swervea1400 floghter1521 stacker1526 to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530 wave1532 stagger1533 to hang in the wind1536 to waver as, like, with the wind1548 mammer1554 sway1563 dodge1568 erch1584 suspend1585 float1598 swag1608 hoverc1620 hesitate1623 vacillate1623 fluctuate1634 demur1641 balance1656 to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674 to stand shall I, shall I1674 to go shill-I shall-I1700 to stand at shilly-shally1700 to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734 whiffle1737 dilly-dally1740 to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751 oscillate1771 shilly-shally1782 dacker1817 librate1822 humdrum1825 swing1833 (to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848 to back and fill1854 haver1866 wobble1867 shaffle1873 dicker1879 to be on the weigh-scales1886 waffle1894 to think twice1898 to teeter on the brink1902 dither1908 vagulate1918 pern1920 1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 73 Ye needna be haiverin' that wye aboot gain' haim..wee the lassie. A ken ye like 'ir. 1919 M. Diver Strong Hours iii. 83 You've been havering long enough; and I gather that my proposal—broadly speaking—is not distasteful to you? 1955 J. Bayley In Another Country 75 It was a classic moment for polite havering, but the sensible girl did not haver: he was holding the front door open and she climbed in without more ado. 2013 Express (Nexis) 1 Mar. 15 Over 20 years successive governments havered and dithered over nuclear reactor replacement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹eOEn.²1305n.³a1796v.1776
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