Meaning of stiver | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A small Dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder.
   historical
3. Anything of small value.

Equivalents

Examples

“’Tis not worth a single stiver, said the bandy-leg'd drummer.”

“[A]ll hands, including the captain, received certain shares of the profits called lays […] And though the 275th lay was what they call a rather long lay, yet it was better than nothing; and if we had a lucky voyage, might pretty nearly pay for the clothing I would wear out on it, not to speak of my three years' beef and board, for which I would not have to pay one stiver.”

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