"lever" Definition

Definitions for the word "lever" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. a.
More agreeable; more pleasing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. adv.
Rather.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
1 bar resting on a pivot, used to prise. 2 bar pivoted about a fulcrum (fixed point) which can be acted upon by a force (effort) in order to move a load. 3 projecting handle moved to operate a mechanism. 4 means of exerting moral pressure. v. 1 use a lever. 2 (often foll. By away, out, up, etc.) Lift, move, etc. With a lever. [latin levo raise]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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