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UK
/hˈiːvɐ/
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NOUN
- a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard)
- a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope)
How To Use heaver In A Sentence
- The sheavers brought a flagon of cider and they all took a rest in the shade of the binder. THE MAIN CAGES
- Certain critics and authors who are quite willing to have the coal-heaver's filthy story debarred from the mails, because it can be understood by coal-heavers, protest against debarring the filthy story of the artist, because only the highly sophisticated can understand it. Unprintable
- He liked to think he was consorting with all sorts of men — so he beheld coalheavers in their tap-rooms; boxers in their inn-parlours; honest citizens disporting in the suburbs or on the river; and he would have liked to hob and nob with celebrated pickpockets, or drink a pot of ale with a company of burglars and cracksmen, had chance afforded him an opportunity of making the acquaintance of this class of society. The History of Pendennis
- He also provided Rob with a species of hat, greatly to be admired for its symmetry and usefulness, as well as for a happy blending of the mariner with the coal-heaver; which is usually termed a sou'wester; and which was something of a novelty in connexion with the instrument business. Dombey and Son
- The sheavers brought a flagon of cider and they all took a rest in the shade of the binder. THE MAIN CAGES
- He also provided Rob with a species of hat, greatly to be admired for its symmetry and usefulness, as well as for a happy blending of the mariner with the coal – heaver; which is usually termed a sou’wester; and which was something of a novelty in connexion with the instrument business. Dombey and Son