haver

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  1. One who has or possesses; a possessor. [Rare.] Valour is the chiefest virtue, and Most dignifies the haver. Shak., Cor., ii. 2. A princes favour is a precious thing, Yet it doth many unto ruine bring; Because the havers of it proudly use it, And (to their owne ambitious ends) abuse it. John Taylor, Works (1630). We are in thus holding or thus spending … not only covetous, but wrongfull, or havers of more than our own, against the will of the right owners. Barrow, Works, I. xxxi.
  2. In Scots law, the holder of a deed or writing, who is called upon to produce it judicially, in modum probationis, or for inspection in the course of a process.
  3. Oats; the oat, Avena sativa. [North. Eng. and Scotch.]
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  • + Can be more of haver, remember that this is not the official BETA. —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • We decided to haver a couple of days in Brisbane on our own before we met up with Paul and Gerard, who were flying into a town called Ballina, which is 200 Km south of Brisbane. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • This afternoon I had the pleasure of going on former HarperCollins imprint-haver and. —  Gawker
  • He has not asked why we have a huge deficit, or why republicans since 1980 haver been the ones who gave it to us. —  Colorado Independent Media Center
  • CNN analyst, New Yorker writer, alleged affair-haver, and big Facebook fan Jeffrey Toobin recently updated his Facebook status to "married." —  Gawker
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  1. from have + -er.
  2. from Middle English haver (rare) = Icelandic (modern) hafr = Swedish hafre = Danish havre, all prob. of Low German origin. from Old Low German haboro, havoro, Middle Low German haver, Low German hawer = Dutch haver = Old High German habaro, Middle High German habere, haber, German haber (and hafer, after Low German), oats. The orig. English word is oats.
  3. Origin uncertain.
 

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