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Definition of Heavers
1. heaver [n] - See also: heaver
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heavers
Literary usage of Heavers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1768)
"... ofthe , Conl-heavers. Svo. Pr. Ii. Nicoll. In a country like England, where
there is fo great a ..."
2. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford by Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"The coal-heavers, who, by the way, are all Irish White-boys, after their battles
with the sailors, turned themselves to general war, robbed in companies, ..."
3. The Hygiene, Diseases and Mortality of Occupations by John Thomas Arlidge (1892)
"Coal-heavers are generally understood to include the rough labourers engaged in
loading and unloading coal vessels, or on coal wharfs in filling sacks and ..."
4. Letters from England by Robert] [Southey (1898)
"Dress of the English without Variety — Coal-heavers. Post-men. Art of knocking
at the Door.—Inscriptions orer the Shops.-—Exhibitions in the Shop- u>indows. ..."
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