*haver*

n. [ D. haver; akin to G. haber. ] The oat; oats. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Haver bread, oaten bread. --
Haver cake, oaten cake. Piers Plowman. --
Haver grass, the wild oat. --
Haver meal, oatmeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. havresac, G. habersack, sack for oats. See 2d Haver, and Sack a bag. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A bag for oats or oatmeal. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bag or case, usually of stout cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from knapsack. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A gunner's case or bag used to carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

Haversian canals (Anat.), the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. [ 1913 Webster ]