lever
le ver
- n a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum
- n a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum
- n a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock
- v to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
- Apparently the intuitive aversion to giving someone a lethal push is stronger than the aversion to a lethal lever pull.
- And he has recouped one more lever of power: in 2000 Florida Governor Jeb Bush reinstated the rights taken away by Colson's felony convictionincluding the right to vote.
- Evidently, the lever technology needed such aggressive commercials fifteen states that had adopted the device since its mass production in 1892 had returned them by 1929 .