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A bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope)
Answer for the clue "A bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope) ", 6 letters:
heaver
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Word definitions for heaver in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heaver \Heav"er\ (h[=e]v"[~e]r), n. One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver. (Naut.) A bar used as a lever. --Totten.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope) a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight. 2 A bar used as a lever.
Usage examples of heaver.
Fearing that the coal heavers might start some kind of fracas he went to the window.
The heavers forward now resume their song, and while the one tackle is peeling and hoisting a second strip from the whale, the other is slowly slackened away, and down goes the first strip through the main hatchway right beneath, into an unfurnished parlor called the blubber-room.