Synonym: jimmy, lever tumbler, prise, prize, pry. Similar words: clever, cleverly, cleverness, never-never, level, eleven, all levels, sea level. Meaning: ['levə(r) /'lɪːv-] n. 1. a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum 2. a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum 3. a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock. v. to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open.
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61. The little gear lever feels like a tin opener on a string of cables.
62. A dashboard-mounted lever allows the driver to make easy direction changes.
63. A lever lid tin was used to heat coal dust, using a spirit burner.
64. The rats eventually managed to press the lever very quickly after being placed in the box, in order to receive their reward.
65. Forster smashed down the locking lever, and pulled for all his worth.
66. He was much older than Lever and his friends, his dark hair tied back in two long pigtails.
67. Allowed free access to their own reward centers(http://sentencedict.com), many of the rats became hopeless lever addicts.
68. The blacks went in, pulled the lever, came out, and got their chickens.
69. Through the middle-of-the-night streets, seem to have forgotten how to drive, is this the gear lever?
70. When used in pillar drill, it is often very difficult to reach the on-off switch with one hand on the lever.
71. Both tumbler and lever locks were in everyday use quite early in the Roman period, as excavations at Pompeii have shown.
72. He was using Kring to lever the top off the altar.
73. The cam lever goes to C. The side levers position themselves - they're not under the knitter's control.
74. Complete the lace message - pull the selected lever and move the lace carriage to the right.
75. When the lever is pressed, a food pellet drops through a thin tube.
76. In his desperation to escape, he fumbled the lever and the door jammed partly open.
77. Yet the peasantry represented, at least potentially, a lever of social change which the more moderate intelligentsia lacked.
78. When she found a free machine, she pressed a lever that released the ball.
79. Then Tony pulled the lever and the wheel began to slow down.
80. For simpler work, the depth is adjusted merely by setting the cam lever.
81. But the group selector, like the main gear lever, does ask for more than average effort from its user.
82. He threw a lever and the twin 1500-horsepower engines roared to life.
83. He let in the clutch lever and we moved forward.
84. He said the two men attacked him with a tyre lever, hammer and a craft knife.
85. On the Chunky and double knit ribbers, this third control is a lever at the top of the tension dial.
86. Even on the ground you can do expensive damage by moving the undercarriage lever in mistake for the flaps or airbrakes.
87. These kinds of objectives were to be attained by public-sector pump-priming investment designed to lever out private resources.
88. Pic 4 shows an example of a lever lock key in bronze with a simple bit to open the lock.
89. According to a Lever Brothers spokesman, the humble bar is not as hygienic.
90. At least the handle turned, and to his surprise the turntable revolved, if rather slowly, when he moved the lever.
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