It was a longish beam of heart of oak, sound and strong, useful either as a support or as an engine of attack--a lever for a burden, a ram against a tower.
To be a lever powerful enough to heave great masses of rock, and when sprung to the utmost power to succeed only in giving an affected woman a bump in the forehead--to be a catapult dealing ruin on a pole-kitten!
When connection is made at the jack, this relay becomes energized and the tip strand of the cord circuit is made complete by the right-hand lever being pulled against the front contact of this relay.
The spring 10 engages the spring 9 only when the hook lever is up and not then unless the dial is in its normal position.
For a correct idea of its mechanical action it must be understood that the shaft 1, the lever 2, and the interrupter segment 3 are all rigidly fastened to the dial and move with it.
When the release magnet is energized, it attracts its armature 9 and this lifts the armature 7 of the trip magnet so that the latch 6 rides on top of the left-hand end of the lever 3.
The fourth lever on the side switch, when in its third position, serves merely to close the circuit of the rotary off-normal lamp.
Normally the lower end of this dog lies in the path of the pin 5 carried on the lever 2, and thus the shaft, dial, and segment are prevented from any considerable movement when the receiver is on the hook.
It is carried on the rod 2 pivoted on a lever 3, which, in turn, is pivoted at 4 in a stationary portion of the framework.
The lever 4 of the side switch in this position connects to ground the circuit leading from the line switch through the release trunk, and the winding of the off-normal relay.
The pin 6 is mounted in a stationary position and serves to limit the backward movement of the dial by the lever 2 striking against it.
In this position lever 4 of the side switch places a ground on the wire leading through the rotary magnet to a source of interrupted battery current.
In coin collectors of the Baird Electric Company, the power for the signals is provided by hand power, a lever being pulled for each coin deposited.
Stick to the lever of a steam hammer, when the ram kicks the safety-trigger!
Manders omitted to add that Lever had never had another play staged, but Eric's ten years of dramatic criticism enabled him to fill the gap.
Graham Lever had three plays running in London at the same time; then he chucked romantic comedy and tried to write a revolt-of-the-younger-generation problem play.
The application of a lever to lift or move any weighty body.
A slender piece of timber used as a lever to propel a boat through the water.
A notch on the eccentric rod of a steam-engine for fitting a pin in the gab-lever to break the connection with the slide-valves.
A lever with a hook at one end for heavy articles.
It operates by means of two iron bolts, one thrust through the inner hole of it, which bolted through forms the lever axis in the iron crutch of the pump, and serves as the fulcrum for the brake, supporting it between the cheeks.
A lever made of tough ash, and used to heave round the windlass in order to draw up the anchor from the bottom, or move any heavy articles, particularly in merchant ships.
The prop or support of a lever in lifting or removing a heavy body.
In the marine steam-engine, the lever and counter-balance weight are fixed upon the wiper-shaft, to form an equipoise to the valves.
The handle or lever of the old and simplest form of pump.
Also, the hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted.
A wooden roller, or heaver, having a rope wound about it, through the bight of which an iron bolt is inserted as a lever for heaving it round.
To raise, or slue, weighty bodies by means of a lever purchase or power.
The size and strength of the staging must be regulated according to the power available for screwing the piles, but the length of the lever arms and the capstan bars require a space in which to revolve, from, say, 35 to 60 feet square.
He gave the knob another half turn and laid his hand lightly on the lever which controlled the movements of the tractor.
We may even beat them to the club if we have luck," and he pushed the gas lever a few notches higher, and neatly dodged a dog curled up in the sand of the road.
The hook already fixed into the foreign body prevents it from being driven further within the meatus, whilst the scoop, if it can be got beyond the foreign body, can usually lever it out.
Various forms of polypus forceps and bone-pliers may be required, and the necrosed bone has to be raised from its bed by a variety of lever and to-and-fro movements.
On the turning of the lever she sank, inch by inch, until only her tower was out of water.
Then he ran to his engine, swung himself up, and pressed the lever just as the empty passenger train moved off in the other direction.
The lever turns in a half circle, as you may know.
Suppose he were to grasp the leverand give the cubes their full power.
The lever in the wall of the lower or living room of the car communicated with screens, ingeniously arranged for shutting off the power of the anti-gravity cubes.
With a quick pull of the lever I opened the oxygen tank and dashed below once more.
Mind what I tell you--do not pull the lever until the door is securely closed.
When five hours were gone, the professor left the lever and came upstairs to have a look through the telescope for himself.
For four hours or more the professor called out for slight variations in the speed of the car, but in the main the lever was held on the number, 90, which gave a maximum velocity.
The lever should have been thrown to zero and then removed to prevent Gilhooly from tampering with it.
Turning to the wall behind him, he caught a small leverand turned it over as far as it would go.
Then, all of a sudden, I felt a grip of fingers about my throat, and I was hauled from the lever and thrown back on the floor.
You don't know how much evil you have done," said Quinn, an expression on his face similar to the one I had seen when he jerked the lever and shot us into the unknown.
Brende's secret of longevity was the crux of all this turmoil--the lever by which Tarrano was raising himself.
Well, we must get our feeble lever under this boulder of wickedness as we can, and do our faint best to expose all the reptiles and slimy things beneath it.
He exhibited the most dazzling double-edged axes, but nobody would grind them; he pointed out the most attractive and convenient of logs for rolling, but nobody would put a lever to them.
As often as the operator presses down his key lever and lets it spring up again, the same action takes place in the sounder, and it makes that click, click, which you have heard if you have ever seen telegraph instruments in operation.
If you will look once more at the picture of the key you will see under the long handle (or lever) a little point which the lever will touch when it is pressed down.
There were two additional controls--the continuous rope that opened the cistern valve to fill the bucket, and a second lever to open the valve of the bucket to empty it.
Immediately over the hole, L, a wooden pin should be fixed in the lid, and of such length that it will press the short arm of lever down sufficiently.
It will be best to cut the groove in which the lever works from below, and, after the lever is fixed, to fill up the space not required by the lever with strips of wood, H, H.
The end of the lever should be finished with a wood block, as Fig.
Stop valves are left open, the reversing lever is not fixed in mid-gear, steam is got up in the boilers at a time when no one is in the engine house, and the engines run away.
Before the aperture of the pipe is a lever, with a disk on one arm, on to which the issuing water impinges, thereby keeping the lever in the position indicated by the dotted lines.
After they have been screwed on, put the bolt through, and let the claw of the lever hold it in place.
For the change that has taken place we are indebted solely to science--the only lever capable of raising mankind.
Some fellow we never heard of will give the lever a jerk some day, and there will be a rumble and a flash and it will run perfectly," he asserted.
And then, maybe--maybe I thought it funny that you should have employed Mr. Harwood to pull the lever that sent the big hammer smashing down on the insect.
Thus from the one-armed lever of the many-toed fish-fin arose the improved many-armed leversystem of the five-toed amphibian limbs.
This rifle was a single-barrelled ten-bore, with under lever action and a hammer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lever" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
