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English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
oliver (plural olivers)
- (archaic, rare) A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot.
1903, John Cotton, Chimes and Rhymes, page 66:I hear, with the song that she sings me in lullaby tones, / The noise of the nailshops, the ringing of hammers, the groans / Of deep-heaving bellows, the "oliver's" thud on the die,
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Catalan
Etymology
From oliva + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
oliver m (plural olivers)
- olive tree
- Synonym: olivera
Further reading
- “oliver”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , April 2007
- “oliver”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “oliver” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “oliver” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Swedish
Noun
oliver
- indefinite plural of oliv