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LEV'ER, n. [L. levo, to raise.]
More agreeable; more
pleasing.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
To be lever than. See Had as lief, under Had. Rather.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
For lever had I die than see his deadly face. Spenser. A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or
axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where
forces are applied; -- used for transmitting and modifying force and
motion. Specif., a bar of metal, wood, or other rigid substance, used
to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length,
by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on
a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the
first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according
as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the
power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as
in the figures.
A bar,
as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
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