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• stiver — /stuy veuhr/, n. 1. Also, stuiver. a former nickel coin of the Netherlands, equal to five Dutch cents. 2. the smallest possible amount: not worth a stiver; not a stiver of work. [1495 1505; < D stuiver] * * * …   Universalium

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