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stover

/ˈstəʊ.və/US/ˈstoʊ.vɚ/

stover noun: fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.

stover: fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay
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Noun

stover (countable and uncountable, plural stovers)

  1. Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
    • Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,
      And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep; […]1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
  2. Stalks and leaves, not including grain, of certain forages
    • Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrients in the ground.2012 August 24, George Monbiot, Guardian Weekly, page 20

Proper noun capitalized: Stover

Stover (plural Stovers)

  1. A surname from German.

stover meaning in Tamil

stover in Tamil

கம்பன் தட்டு, சோளத் தட்டு, தட்டு

Forms of stover

Noun
pluralstovers
Proper noun
pluralStovers

Origin of stover

From Anglo-Norman estovers (“necessities”) via Middle English estover (“allowance”), ultimately from Latin est opus (“there is need”). Compare estover.

Borrowed from German Stöver.

Questions about stover

What does stover mean?
Stover means fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
What is stover in Tamil?
Stover in Tamil is கம்பன் தட்டு, சோளத் தட்டு, தட்டு. See Stover meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stover?
Stover can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce stover?
Stover is pronounced /ˈstəʊ.və/ (UK).
What is the plural of stover?
The plural of stover is stovers.

Words near stover in the dictionary

  1. stovepipe trousers
  2. stovepipe-hatted
  3. stovepiped
  4. stovepipes
  5. stovepiping
  6. stover
  7. stovers
  8. stoves
  9. stovesful
  10. stoveside
  11. stovetop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stover (page history and authors); Stover (page history and authors); stover (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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