evenern.

Brit.

/ˈiːvn̩ə/, U.S.

/ˈiv(ə)nər/

Forms: see even v.¹ and -er suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: even v.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < even v.¹ + -er suffix¹.

a. A person who or thing which makes something even (in various senses).rare before 19th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > making equal > one who or that which makes equal

evenera1300

equallera1649

equalizer1792

the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > assigning or allotting > one who assigns or allots > equally

evener1851

a1300 Hymn to Virgin (Vernon) in T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1774) I. x. 315 Heyl evenere of old lawe and newe.

1851 W. C. Roscoe Violenzia iv. ii. 81 O sacred Justice, warrior of God, Strong brother of the precious weanling, Mercy, Evener of the Fates.

1927 Sci. Surv. Porto Rico & Virgin Islands (N.Y. Acad. Sci.) VII. ii. 118 The forest..is the great softener and evener of the landscape.

1996 Chicago Tribune 24 Nov. i. 9 (advt.) Compact #1 holds Undereye Pigmentation Evener, plus 3 shades of custom-blended powdery creme foundation.

2009 Toronto Star (Nexis) 10 May (Sports section) 1 Down by another [goal] in the third, less than five minutes to go, Ovechkin powered home the evener, forcing overtime.

b. Scottish and English regional. A person responsible for apportioning common land. historical in later use.

ΚΠ

1510 Court Bk. Barony of Alloway 4 June in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Evinar The lawboring..of the daill deliuerit till him be the evinaris.

1524 Court Bk. Barony of Alloway 16 June in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Evinar The jugeis ordanis the evinaris till devid equalie the bank.

1707 Chancery Pleading P.R.O.: C 7/248/10 m. 2 Every one that hath a yard Land shall..Lett one single pasture every yeare if need be to bee for poore men..att a price not exceeding ffour shillings a single pasture to be sett by the eveners.

1957 W. G. Hoskins Midland Peasant viii. 245 It was an obligation on the larger men to provide such pastures for men who had none,..and the eveners had to see that this obligation was observed.

1993 J. M. Neeson Commoners 1996 74 The eveners..kept the same ‘Liberty to provide pastures [commons] for them that have none as Formerly’.

c. In plural. A group of men engaged in the transporting of livestock by rail to New York, who were tasked with ensuring that shipments on different railway lines were made in agreed proportions. Now historical and rare.

ΚΠ

1877 Chicago Tribune 14 July 2/1 A Tribune reporter inquired of one of the officials of an Eastern road [i.e. railroad] whether this charge was founded on facts. He..finally admitted a rebate was given to the ‘eveners’. He would not state who the ‘eveners’ were.

1889 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 4 Sept. 1/3 The senator..brought in the names of Nelson Morris and Allerton and some others as having been parties to the ‘eveners’ combination.

1957 B. L. Pierce Hist. Chicago (2007) III. iv. 135 Each railroad company transported whatever it was offered, but if the returns of any month indicated that any one carrier had received more than its proportion of all shipments, the so-called ‘Cattle Pool’, or ‘Eveners’, effected an equalization the next month.

2. A tool or apparatus for evening something.

a. Weaving (originally Scottish). A tool used to spread out the yarn on the beam; = raddle n.³ 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > reed or slay

slayc1050

reed1595

raddle1648

niffler1752

evener1785

ravel1805

sniffle1805

separator1831

rave1888

shed-stick1910

shed-rod1968

1785 J. Malloch Weavers' Compan. Pref. p. v The Sixth Table shews how many Pins of an Evener any number of Bouts will fill, run with any number of Legs.

1844 P. Chalmers Dunfermline I. xiii. 369 In the case of a web of three chains there were three men, one holding each chain, two holding the niffler or evener, and at least six driving the beam.

1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 371 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI I claim..the exclusive use of said spring rests and ‘evener’.

1904 T. Woodhouse & T. Milne Jute & Linen Weaving I. vi. 34 By means of the pin lease the beamer spreads the warp over the swinging and fixed ‘raddles’ or ‘eveners’..to the width of the beam.

1977 Reader's Digest New Fix-It-Yourself Man. 74/1 Dress the strands with the evener, forcing them tightly into parallel rows.

b. U.S. An apparatus for distributing the load equally between two or more draught horses.

ΚΠ

1843 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 15 Apr. The part of an evener between whippletrees.

1858 Cultivator May 158/2 I would like to know the measure of an evener for three horses to be used on the plow.

1940 W. Ashby & A. H. Glaves Plowing with Moldboard Plows (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1690) 14 The number of horses hitched abreast, the length of the eveners, and the way the horses are reined affect the running of a plow.

2008 Daily Globe (Worthington, Minnesota) (Nexis) 17 Sept. The evener broke when one of the horses leaped ahead of the other two.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	evener
释义	evenern. Brit. /ˈiːvn̩ə/, U.S. /ˈiv(ə)nər/ Forms: see even v.¹ and -er suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: even v.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < even v.¹ + -er suffix¹. 1. a. A person who or thing which makes something even (in various senses).rare before 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > making equal > one who or that which makes equal evenera1300 equallera1649 equalizer1792 the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > assigning or allotting > one who assigns or allots > equally evener1851 a1300 Hymn to Virgin (Vernon) in T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1774) I. x. 315 Heyl evenere of old lawe and newe. 1851 W. C. Roscoe Violenzia iv. ii. 81 O sacred Justice, warrior of God, Strong brother of the precious weanling, Mercy, Evener of the Fates. 1927 Sci. Surv. Porto Rico & Virgin Islands (N.Y. Acad. Sci.) VII. ii. 118 The forest..is the great softener and evener of the landscape. 1996 Chicago Tribune 24 Nov. i. 9 (advt.) Compact #1 holds Undereye Pigmentation Evener, plus 3 shades of custom-blended powdery creme foundation. 2009 Toronto Star (Nexis) 10 May (Sports section) 1 Down by another [goal] in the third, less than five minutes to go, Ovechkin powered home the evener, forcing overtime. b. Scottish and English regional. A person responsible for apportioning common land. historical in later use. ΚΠ 1510 Court Bk. Barony of Alloway 4 June in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Evinar The lawboring..of the daill deliuerit till him be the evinaris. 1524 Court Bk. Barony of Alloway 16 June in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Evinar The jugeis ordanis the evinaris till devid equalie the bank. 1707 Chancery Pleading P.R.O.: C 7/248/10 m. 2 Every one that hath a yard Land shall..Lett one single pasture every yeare if need be to bee for poore men..att a price not exceeding ffour shillings a single pasture to be sett by the eveners. 1957 W. G. Hoskins Midland Peasant viii. 245 It was an obligation on the larger men to provide such pastures for men who had none,..and the eveners had to see that this obligation was observed. 1993 J. M. Neeson Commoners 1996 74 The eveners..kept the same ‘Liberty to provide pastures [commons] for them that have none as Formerly’. c. In plural. A group of men engaged in the transporting of livestock by rail to New York, who were tasked with ensuring that shipments on different railway lines were made in agreed proportions. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1877 Chicago Tribune 14 July 2/1 A Tribune reporter inquired of one of the officials of an Eastern road [i.e. railroad] whether this charge was founded on facts. He..finally admitted a rebate was given to the ‘eveners’. He would not state who the ‘eveners’ were. 1889 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 4 Sept. 1/3 The senator..brought in the names of Nelson Morris and Allerton and some others as having been parties to the ‘eveners’ combination. 1957 B. L. Pierce Hist. Chicago (2007) III. iv. 135 Each railroad company transported whatever it was offered, but if the returns of any month indicated that any one carrier had received more than its proportion of all shipments, the so-called ‘Cattle Pool’, or ‘Eveners’, effected an equalization the next month. 2. A tool or apparatus for evening something. a. Weaving (originally Scottish). A tool used to spread out the yarn on the beam; = raddle n.³ 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > reed or slay slayc1050 reed1595 raddle1648 niffler1752 evener1785 ravel1805 sniffle1805 separator1831 rave1888 shed-stick1910 shed-rod1968 1785 J. Malloch Weavers' Compan. Pref. p. v The Sixth Table shews how many Pins of an Evener any number of Bouts will fill, run with any number of Legs. 1844 P. Chalmers Dunfermline I. xiii. 369 In the case of a web of three chains there were three men, one holding each chain, two holding the niffler or evener, and at least six driving the beam. 1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 371 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI I claim..the exclusive use of said spring rests and ‘evener’. 1904 T. Woodhouse & T. Milne Jute & Linen Weaving I. vi. 34 By means of the pin lease the beamer spreads the warp over the swinging and fixed ‘raddles’ or ‘eveners’..to the width of the beam. 1977 Reader's Digest New Fix-It-Yourself Man. 74/1 Dress the strands with the evener, forcing them tightly into parallel rows. b. U.S. An apparatus for distributing the load equally between two or more draught horses. ΚΠ 1843 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 15 Apr. The part of an evener between whippletrees. 1858 Cultivator May 158/2 I would like to know the measure of an evener for three horses to be used on the plow. 1940 W. Ashby & A. H. Glaves Plowing with Moldboard Plows (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1690) 14 The number of horses hitched abreast, the length of the eveners, and the way the horses are reined affect the running of a plow. 2008 Daily Globe (Worthington, Minnesota) (Nexis) 17 Sept. The evener broke when one of the horses leaped ahead of the other two. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1300
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