stover Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun the dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested

OE. estoveir, estovoir, necessity, provisions, properly an inf., "to be necessary." Cf. Estovers.

Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
Where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatched with stover them to keep. Shak.

Thresh barley as yet but as need shall require, Fresh threshed for stover thy cattle desire. Tusser.