fulcrum

napa, tukipiste puhekieltä The support about which a lever pivots.
It is possible to flick food across the table using your fork as a lever and your finger as a fulcrum.
2010, w:John Allison (artist)|John Allison, ''http://scarygoround.com/?date=20100126 Bad Machinery

MILDRED: Archimedes said give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I will move the world.

CHARLOTTE: Yeah she said that twaddle eight or nine times.

By this point the fulcrum of concern is the stuprum of men upon men, described as more prevalent than that upon women.