What is "leavers"

Usage examples of "leavers".

Some early leavers were beginning to get their coats, but the hard core would be there for much, much longer.

Hither came no payers of formal calls, no leavers of cards, no pests from the humdrum world to open their mouths and utter foolishness.

I call for my leavers and iron bars, for my chisels, drills, and wedges to split rocks, and for my wagons to cart seaweed for manure upon my farm.