heavern.
/ˈhiːvə/, U.S. /ˈhivər/ 1. A person who heaves (in various senses: see the verb); spec. a labourer employed in landing goods at a dockyard. (See also ballast heaver n. at ballast n. Compounds 1, coal-heaver n.)
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker > labourer or unskilled
labourera1393
laboura1425
pioneer1543
hand1551
heaver1587
yard boy1776
son of toil1779
spalpeen1780
hacker1784
khalasi1785
tiger1865
cafone1872
mucker1899
mazdoor1937
bracero1946
manamba1959
nkuba kyeyo1991
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > workers performing other tasks or processes
river?c1475
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sinker1526
folder up1552
wiper1552
scourer1574
heaver1587
stoverc1600
rasper1611
ripper1611
roller1616
smearer1632
waterleadera1650
scooper1668
smiter1670
puncher1681
staker1688
crusher1794
hardener1796
reamer1822
piledriver1826
catcher1832
waterproofer1837
middler1847
culler1850
hanger-on1858
pitcher1865
bumper1871
fine liner1871
bricksetter1883
waxer1890
bottle-oh1898
edger1909
bottle-o-er1915
caster1921
recycler1970
linesperson1973
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 84/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Notwithstanding the pushes giuen against him by secret heauers that enuied his fortune.
1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 69 Padders, Booth-heavers, and the like.
1696 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 96 The heavers of coales from the ships to the lighters.
1824 Examiner 70/2 Mere heavers of the leg, kickers of the ankle.
1881 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Suppl. at Heler ‘The heler's as bad as the heaver’; which is analogous to ‘The receiver's as bad as the thief’.
2. Something that heaves; an apparatus for heaving or lifting, a lever; spec. (Nautical) a wooden bar or staff used for twisting or tightening a rope or strap.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lever or crowbar > [noun]
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speke1366
crowa1400
gavelock1497
prisea1500
handspoke1513
porter1538
sway1545
handspike1559
heaver1598
coleweigh1600
handspeek1644
forcer1649
ringer1650
ripping-chisel1659
pinch1685
crow-spike1692
Betty1700
wringer1703
crowbar1748
spike1771
pry1803
jemmy1811
crow-iron1817
dog1825
pinchbar1837
jimmy1848
stick1848
pry bar1872
peiser1873
nail bar1929
cane1930
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Toladro, an instrument, heauer, or engine to mount any piece of ordinance vp into the carriage.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 775 The fourth Muscle is called Leuator or the Heauer.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Heaver, a Breast.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. U3 Heaver, a name given by seamen to a wooden staff, employed by them as a lever on many occasions.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 190 The strap is nippered, with a heaver, round the block.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Heaver, a wooden bar or staff, sometimes tapered at the ends; it is employed as a lever or purchase.
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