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kanki puhekieltä A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).
puhekieltä A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
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puhekieltä An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
puhekieltä To move with a leverNoun lever.
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Someone found a pick and levered a burst plank out of the floor, and in a few minutes we had got a fire alight and our drenched clothes were steaming.

''With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.

Suddenly he had levered himself up from the sofa, rocking the lame man violently, and was walking towards the receptionist.

He was a man who levered his way from small-time communist hack to political power by tapping into the most potent vein of historical juice in the Balkans: nationalism.

Credited with pioneering the detective novel, Collins has attracted many biographers over the years, drawn to his extraordinary life and work in the hope of levering open a new understanding of the Victorian psyche.

for I had lever be without ye / Then have suche besines about ye

Now therefore take my life from me, for I had lever die then live.

For lever had I die than see his deadly face.

We do not appear at Phœbus's Levér.

Louis XIV’s day began with a lever at 9 and ended (officially) at around midnight.

''Je me lève, je me lave.

''I get up, I wash.

For him was lever have at his beds headTwenty bookes, clad in black or red, . . . Than robes rich, or fithel, or gay sawtrie. —The Canterbury Tales'', Geoffrey Chaucer

But lever than this worldés goodShe would have wist how that it stood —Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins, John Gower.