Another word for lever
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- A relatively favorable position; superiority of means:
- A beneficial factor or combination of factors:
- Benefit or profit; gain:
- A support for the arm on a chair, sofa, etc.
- A weapon, especially a firearm:
- A part similar to a human arm, such as the forelimb of an animal or a long part projecting from a central support in a machine.
- Any of several large glossy black birds of the genus Corvus, having a characteristic raucous call, especially C. brachyrhynchos of North America.
- A member of a North American Indian people living in the upper basins of the Yellowstone and Bighorn rivers
- An inarticulate sound expressive of pleasure or delight.
- A long metal bar, usually with a bent, often forked, wedge-shaped end, used as a lever for prying, etc.
- A kind of crowbar with a pointed, projecting end, used to roll heavy wheels, etc.
- A crowbar with a pointed projection at one end.
- The mouthpiece of a horse's bit, or the part of a horse's mouth into which it is fitted
- (--- Chiefly British) A small insignia worn on a military decoration indicating that it has been awarded an additional time.
- Any place of judgment
- (Obsolete) An enterprise.
- Obsolete form of prize.
- Something, such as a crowbar, that is used to apply leverage.
- A tool for raising or moving something by leverage; lever, crowbar, etc.
- A person who is improperly inquisitive
- (Weightlifting) A weightlifter.
- A spatula.
- Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
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