Definition of "clavers" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of claver. (verb)

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• "‘Ye may swear that,’ replied the provost — ‘as black a Jacobite as the auld leaven can make him; but a sonsy, merry companion, that none of us think it worth while to break wi’ for all his brags and his clavers."
• "And this mad quean, after cracking like a pen-gun, and skirling like a pea-hen for the haill night, behoves just to hae hadden her tongue when her clavers might have dune some gude!"
• "I cheated the leddy for your clavers, but I wasna gaun to cheat my joe."