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tiver

UK/ˈtɪvə/

tiver noun: a kind of ochre used for marking sheep in some parts of England.

Noun

tiver

  1. A kind of ochre used for marking sheep in some parts of England.

Verb

tiver (third-person singular simple present tivers, present participle tivering, simple past and past participle tivered)

  1. (England, regional, transitive) To mark with tiver, as sheep.

Forms of tiver

third-person singular presenttivers
present participletivering
past participletivered
pasttivered

Origin of tiver

From Middle English *tever, teapor, teafur, from Old English tēafor (“red, red lead, vermilion, purple; a material used in making salve; pigment, salve”), from Proto-West Germanic *taubr, from Proto-Germanic *taubrą (“magic, sorcery”). Cognate with Dutch toverij (“sorcery, witchcraft”), German Zauber (“magic”), Icelandic töfrar (“magic, spells”).

From Middle English *teveren, from Old English tēofrian, *tīefran (“to mark in red or purple, colour; depict, portray”), from tēafor as above.

Words that rhyme with tiver

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Questions about tiver

What does tiver mean?
Tiver means a kind of ochre used for marking sheep in some parts of England.
What part of speech is tiver?
Tiver can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce tiver?
Tiver is pronounced /ˈtɪvə/ (UK).

Words near tiver in the dictionary

  1. tivaevae
  2. tivaivai
  3. tivanite
  4. tivantinib
  5. Tivat
  6. tiver
  7. tivered
  8. tivering
  9. tivers
  10. Tiverton
  11. Tivetshall

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