2. Verb. (third-person singular of lever) ¹
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Definition of Levers
1. lever [v] - See also: lever
Lexicographical Neighbors of Levers
Literary usage of Levers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"[119] "In the patent above referred to, the end of wire or other thing cut off
by the cutters drops into and injures the spring that "opens the jaw- levers. ..."
2. Flying Machines: Construction and Operation; a Practical Book which Shows by William James Jackman, Thomas Herbert Russell, Octave Chanute (1912)
"Others employ foot levers, and still others, like the Wrights, ... The Wrights
for some time used two hand levers, one to steer by and warp the flexible ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The protector ib set free again by merely pushing the bolt forward with the key,
without reference to the levers. However, the protector could be prevented ..."
4. The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide: Illustrated by Twenty-eight by Oliver Evans, Cadwallader Evans, Thomas Ellicott (1860)
"The levers which nature employs in the machinery of the human frame are of the third
... OF COMPOUND levers. Several levers may be applied to act one upon ..."
5. Proceedings by Journal, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (1849)
"fulcra on studs screwed into the standards; one end of these levers is connected
... oo are the holding-down 'levers, adjustable laterally on the shaft Y, ..."
6. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1854)
"If the platform rested on a single lever, this would of course sustain a weight
of 10000 pounds ; but as the levers severally sustain the same part of the ..."
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