Hypertext Webster Gateway: "heaver"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Heaver \Heav"er\, 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. --Totten.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

heaver
n 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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