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heaver|ˈhiːvə(r)|
[f. heave v. + -er1.]
1. A person who heaves (in various senses: see the verb); spec. a labourer employed in landing goods at a dockyard. (See also ballast-heaver, coal-heaver.)
1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 84/1 Notwithstanding the pushes giuen against him by secret heauers that enuied his fortune. 1673R. Head Canting Acad. 69 Padders, Booth-heavers, and the like. 1696Luttrell Brief Rel (1857) IV. 96 The heavers of coales from the ships to the lighters. 1824Examiner 70/2 Mere heavers of the leg, kickers of the ankle. 1881G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v. Heler, ‘The heler's as bad as the heaver’; which is analogous to ‘The receiver's as bad as the thief’.
2. Something that heaves; an apparatus for heaving or lifting, a lever; spec. (Naut.) a wooden bar or staff used for twisting or tightening a rope or strap.
1598Florio, Toladro, an instrument, heauer, or engine to mount any piece of ordinance vp into the carriage. 1615Crooke Body of Man 775 The fourth Muscle is called Leuator or the Heauer. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Heaver, a Breast. 1769Falconer Dict. Mar. (1776), Heaver, a name given by seamen to a wooden staff, employed by them as a lever on many occasions. 1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 190 The strap is nippered, with a heaver, round the block. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Heaver, a wooden bar or staff, sometimes tapered at the ends; it is employed as a lever or purchase. |