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A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever.

LEVERAGE
The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. Leverage of a couple , the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. -- Leverage of a force, the perpendicular
LEVEROCK
A lark.
LEVERWOOD
The American hop hornbeam , a small tree with very tough wood.
LEVERET
A hare in the first year of its age.
LEVER
More agreeable; more pleasing. Chaucer. To be lever than. See Had as lief, under Had.
SHARPEN
To make sharp. Specifically: To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw. To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious. The air . . . sharpened his visual ray
CANTILEVER
See CANTALEVER
CANTALEVER
A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like.
CLEVER
cloven; or clifer a claw, perh. connected with E. cleave to divide, split, the meaning of E. clever perh. coming from the idea 1. Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert. Though there were many clever
CLEVERNESS
The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness. Syn. -- See Ingenuity.
BOULEVERSEMENT
Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.
CLEVERLY
In a clever manner. Never was man so clever absurd. C. Smart.
CLEVERISH
Somewhat clever.