2. Adjective. Equipped with a lever or levers. ¹
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Definition of Levered
1. lever [v] - See also: lever
Lexicographical Neighbors of Levered
Literary usage of Levered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1809)
"... and levered and the other recover, b,e that 1<С1»'«СГ> tlie is ... and levered,
and the other recover thé moitié, and alter ¡mother ..."
2. Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1867)
"The obstructions, however intricate, placed in warded locks, can be easily overcome
by the application of a skeleton key, while a levered lock is only to be ..."
3. Lithotomy, its successes and its dangers by James George Beaney (1876)
"Q.—How do you mean levered it out ? A.—One had a lever above the stone, and the
other had a lever below it; and they levered it out. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1904)
"Choisy shows how an enormous obelisk could be levered horizontally until it rested
over its intended base on a high bank of rubbish, and then supported ..."
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