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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1602, 1672-1690
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Lever, Lewir, Leaver, n.2 (e.m.E. and late ME. lever, ME. levour (1297). a lever, also gen. a pole; also late north. ME. (1481–2) and mod. north. Eng. dial. lever a roof-beam or couple of naturally curved timber as used in thatched buildings. Also attrib. in lever-puncheon.) —c 1602 Irvine Mun. II. 245.
For four treis coft for Mathew Homill to be lewiris 1672 Sinclair Hydrostaticks 187.
For rendring the metals … more easie to work in making them yeeld … to the force of wedge and leaver 1690 Cochran-Patrick Coinage II. 222.
The head punchons and reverses of the fourtie shilling and ten shilling peices with the other small puncheons for the armes; with the lever puncheons for the inscriptions
