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Heaver

noun
1.
A bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope).
2.
A workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard).






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"Heaver" Quotes from Famous Books



... got up first, Jorrocks, without waiting to load, was in the act of starting off to pick him up, when, at the first step, he found himself in the grasp of a Herculean monster, something between a coal-heaver and a gamekeeper, who had been secreted behind the shed. Nosey Browne, who had been watching his movements, holloaed out to Jorrocks to "hold hard," who stood motionless, on the spot from whence he fired, and Browne was speedily alongside of him. "You are on Squire ...
— Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities • Robert Smith Surtees



Words linked to "Heaver" :   workingman, bar, working person, workman, heave, working man



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