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Laver

noun

Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year; in 1969 he repeated this feat (born in 1938). Synonyms: Rod Laver, Rodney George Laver.

(Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions.

Edible red seaweeds. Synonym: red laver.

Seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds. Synonym: sea lettuce.

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"Laver" Quotes from Famous Books

... leading-staff, or truncheon, to the background, where, in such perspective as the artist possessed, were depicted the remains of a burning church, or monastery, and four or five soldiers, in red cassocks, bearing away in triumph what seemed a brazen font or laver. Above their heads might be traced in scroll, "Lee Victor sic voluit." Right opposite to the picture, hung, in a niche in the wall, a complete set of tilting armour, the black and gold colours, and ornaments of ...

— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott

... He conned his map, and made out the names. The peninsula was called the Cruives—an old name apparently, for it was in antique lettering. He vaguely remembered that "cruives" had something to do with fishing, doubtless in the two streams which flanked it. One he had already crossed, the Laver, a clear tumbling water springing from green hills; the other, the Garple, descended from the rougher mountains to the south. The hidden village bore the name of Dalquharter, and the uncouth syllables ...

— Huntingtower • John Buchan