oliver

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑlɪvɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒlɪvə/

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• Hyphenation: ol‧i‧ver

oliver (plural olivers)

1. (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, […]

• “oliver”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• violer, virole

From oliva +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [u.liˈβe]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [o.liˈve]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [o.liˈveɾ]

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oliver m (plural olivers)

1. olive tree

   Synonym: olivera

• “oliver”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 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.

oliver

1. indefinite plural of oliv