Home › Words › S › stoverstover/ˈstəʊ.və/stover means A surname from German.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, stover ranks #6,686 of 42,747 for Qualifying.stover is pronounced /ˈstəʊ.və/.EtymologyBorrowed from German Stöver.nameA surname from German.nounFodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.e.g.“Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep; […]” — 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published Stalks and leaves, not including grain, of certain foragesDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).