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Webster 1913 Edition

(stō′vẽr)

Noun.

[OE.

estoveir

estovoir

, necessity, provisions, properly an inf., “to be necessary.” Cf.

Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.

Where live nibbling sheep,
And flat meads thatched with

stover

them to keep.

Shakespeare

Thresh barley as yet but as need shall require,
Fresh threshed for

stover

thy cattle desire.

Tusser.

Noun.

[a contraction of estover.] Fodder for cattle; primarily, fodder from threshed grain; but in New England, any kind of fodder from the barn or stack.