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underlevers

underlevers is the plural of underlever.

Meaning of underlever

Noun

underlever (plural underlevers)

  1. A lever behind the trigger guard of a rifle
    • Incidentally, the current underlevers developed and produced after World War II are vastly improved over the prewar types, though millions of the latter are still used.1957, Walter Harold Black Smith, Gas, Air, and Spring Guns of the World, page 113
  2. A particular piano component.
    • The wippen, a mechanism of underlevers, controls the jacks that push the hammers up to the strings.1996, Susan Goldenberg, Steinway from Glory to Controversy: The Family, the Business, the Piano

Questions about underlevers

What is underlevers the plural of?
Underlevers is the plural of underlever.

Words near underlevers in the dictionary

  1. underlevelling
  2. underlevels
  3. underlever
  4. underleveraged
  5. underlevered
  6. underlevers
  7. underlexicalization
  8. underlicensed
  9. underlie
  10. underlied
  11. underlier

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