Definition of "claver" [clav•er]

• To gossip or talk idly. (verb-intransitive)
• Gossip; idle talk. (noun)

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• "A Missouri voter in reply to a comment from claver"
• "While claver [clover] blooms white o'er the ley [pasture]"
• ""Everybody will ken the right wye o 'it, and will claver and gossip, when they wad 'a be better to mind their ain affairs, an' let ither folk alane.""