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Heaver   Listen
noun
Heaver  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.
2.
(Naut.) A bar used as a lever.





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"Heaver" Quotes from Famous Books



... affirmative; yet, it must also be remembered that happiness, which is in part due to mental tyranny, is scarcely true happiness, and that in the few moments of real intellectual dignity some educated man can enjoy more real felicity than the uneducated coal-heaver during many ...
— Notes in North Africa - Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia • W. G. Windham
... the day, however, they met a gentleman who was of a different opinion. He said loudly that he looked on the Heaver as the best three-year-old in England. Of course as matters stood he wasn't going to back the Heaver at even money;—but he'd take twenty-five to thirty in hundreds between the two. All this ended in the bet being accepted and duly booked by Lord Silverbridge. ...
— The Duke's Children • Anthony Trollope


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


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