heaver
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heaver (plural heavers)
- One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight.
- a coal heaver
- A bar used as a lever.
- "The spar snapping under them in the slings, as they sought, with heavers, to beat down the icy sail." (Herman Melville, Benito Cereno, 1856)