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lev·el·er

also lev·el·ler (lĕv′ə-lər)

1. One that levels: a leveler of boards.

a. One who advocates the abolition of social inequities.

b. Leveller A member of an English radical political movement arising in the Parliamentarian forces of the 1640s and advocating universal male suffrage, equality before the law, parliamentary democracy, and religious tolerance.

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lev•el•er

(ˈlɛv ə lər)

n.

1. a person or thing that levels.

2. a person or thing that promotes the abolition of inequalities or other distinctions between people.

Also, esp. Brit., leveller.

[1590–1600]

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"NOW you're TALKING!" I says; "your head gets leveler and leveler all the time, Tom Sawyer," I says.

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In the face of hunger, the great leveler, he was as the old, the toothless, and the decrepit.

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Before very long--so soothing is the influence of an after-dinner view of feudal antiquities, taken through the medium of an approving conscience--Lady Lundie's eyes closed; and from Lady Lundie's nose there poured, at intervals, a sound, deep like her ladyship's learning; regular, like her ladyship's habits--a sound associated with nightcaps and bedrooms, evoked alike by Nature, the leveler, from high and low--the sound (oh, Truth what enormities find publicity in thy name!)--the sound of a Snore.

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Talking to reporter here on Thursday, he said that currently cost of a laser land leveler in open market was estimated at Rs 600,000 where as government would provide an amount of Rs 225,000 per unit of laser land leveler to the farmers across the country.

Govt to provide 12,000 laser land levelers on subsidized rates to farmers

Two different dock leveler models provide an easy way to span the gap between a dock and truck bed.

Span the gap between dock and trailer with dock leveler

Inside, Pedestrian-Vu uses motion-sensing technology to initiate the projection of a bright blue light onto the dock leveler when it detects materials handling equipment or a pedestrian's presence inside the trailer.

FOCUS ON Dock Equipment

Using technology from Trimble, a global leader in GPS technology, the Vermeer T1255 direct drive Terrain Leveler surface excavation machine (SEM) now offers GPS steering as an option.

Vermeer adds GPS steering to surface excavation machine

He said, as many as 2000 laser land levelers would be given to the farmers through balloting in the province and government would provide Rs 450,000 subsidy on each land leveler.

99 farmers to get laser land levelers on subsidized rates

The Delano, Minn.-based firm offers the DockBlanket, an insulative cover for the surface areas of dock leveler systems.