Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stover \Sto"ver\ (st[=o]"v[~e]r), n. [OE. estoveir, estovoir,
necessity, provisions, properly an inf., "to be necessary."
Cf. Estovers.]
Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
[1913 Webster]
Where live nibbling sheep,
And flat meads thatched with stover them to keep.
--Shak.
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Thresh barley as yet but as need shall require,
Fresh threshed for stover thy cattle desire. --Tusser.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stover
n 1: the dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially
corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been
harvested