heaver
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈhiːvə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
Noun[edit]
heaver (plural heavers)
- One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight.
- a coal heaver
- A bar used as a lever.
- "The spar snapping under them in the slings, as they sought, with heavers, to beat down the icy sail." (Herman Melville, Benito Cereno, 1856)
Translations[edit]
Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂p-
- English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/iːvə(ɹ)
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns