Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To stagger; totter.
- noun An active, energetic person.
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Examples
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Older folk were always calling him "young staver" and "chip of the old block," and things like that.
Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's Laura Lee Hope
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She was spoken of with applause under such titles as "a staver," "a pealer," "a roarer to work"; and Sol himself had an awful sense of responsibility to her in this regard.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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Sådan siger en af Englands største nutcases Anjem Choudary, Anjim Choudry - Anjem Choudhury - Anjem Choudray eller hvordan han nu staver sit navn i dag.
_Politik 2008
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