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Duver
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A duver (pronounced to rhyme with Cover; occasionally spelt as dover) is an Isle of Wight dialect term for a low-lying piece of land along the coast, subject to occasional inundation by the sea.[1]
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The name has become part of place names on the Isle of Wight, for example Dover Street in Ryde is the street which used to run down to the duver.[2]
The word survives in the names of coastal areas at St Helens Duver, Seaview Duver and Hamstead Dover.[2]
There are relatively few dunes on the Isle of Wight,[3] and some have been reclaimed or otherwise lost, meaning that some places which bear the name duver are no longer sand dunes. The largest surviving example is St Helens Duver.[4]