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Haver

//ˈheɪvə// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Oats (the cereal). Scotland, UK, dialectal
  2. 2
    One who has something (in various senses).

    "It is held / That valour is the chiefest virtue, and / Most dignifies the haver: if it be, / The man I speak of cannot in the world / Be singly counterpoised."

  3. 3
    Alternative form of chaver. alt-of, alternative
  4. 4
    The person who has custody of a document. Scotland
Verb
  1. 1
    To hem and haw. British

    "This didn't seem at all unlikely, but when I none the less havered, he insisted that his 'Egyptian fortune-teller' had confirmed it."

  2. 2
    To talk foolishly; to chatter. Scotland

    "To business, and no more havers."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Scots haiver.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots haver, from Middle English haver, from Old Norse hafri (“oat, oats”), from Proto-Germanic *habrô (“oat, oats”), from Proto-Indo-European *kapro- (“goat”). Cognate with Dutch haver (“oats”) and German Hafer (“oat”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English haver, havere, equivalent to have + -er.

Etymology 4

From Hebrew חבר.

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