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heavers

heavers is the plural of heaver.

Meaning of heaver

Noun

heaver (plural heavers)

  1. One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight.
    • a coal heaver
  2. A bar used as a lever.
    • The spar snapping under them in the slings, as they sought, with heavers, to beat down the icy sail.1856, Herman Melville, Benito Cereno

Questions about heavers

What is heavers the plural of?
Heavers is the plural of heaver.

Words near heavers in the dictionary

  1. heavenwardly
  2. heavenwardness
  3. heavenwards
  4. heavenwood
  5. heaver
  6. heavers
  7. heaves
  8. heaves in sight
  9. heaves in view
  10. heaves into sight
  11. heaves into view

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