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  • n  a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope)
  • n  a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard)

  • Chia has, and his rotund bodiesthighs like boiled ham, buttocks like bumps, coal-heaver armsare straight out of Rosai, though bigger and endowed with a crustier decorative .
  • Commander MacMillan reiterated his belief that heaver-than-air machines are impracticable for Polar flying.
  • Grofe's family in-tended him for business so at 14 he ran away, became an elevator operator, then a truckman, a milkman, a heaver in an iron foundry, a pressman in a bookbindery.
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    1. Ken Merrick 24.50; 2. Jeff Sheldon 25.29; 3. Joshua Rockwell 26.01; 4. Chris Deming 27.51; 5. Rob Zapletal 28.01; 6. Mike Abraham 28.05; 7. Steven Leslie 28.06; 8. Steve Whitcomb 28.39; 9. Ryan Ripp 28.53; 10. Christopher Heaver 29.01.
    June 19, 2013 - The News-Times
Quotes

  • Greg Maddux in Dallas Morning News
    He's not a brain-dead heaver,Maddux said. "He's a pitcher. He wants to learn about what he's doing. Most young guys are all really good throwers, but they shy away from information. They don't want to think. They just want to throw....
  • Dean Barrow in Independent
    Mr Barrow says he has followed a paper trail that shows that Lord Ashcroft ultimately controls SpeedNet: "77.38% of Speednet is owned by three companies - Callerbar Limited, Riddermark Ventures Limited, and Heaver Holdings Limited. These three...

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