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How to pronounce heaver in English?

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Type Words
Type of bar
Type Words
Type of working man, working person, workingman, workman
Derivation heave

Examples of heaver

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I used to live near the great lakes in the US, where snow fall is much heaver than here.
From the hounslowandbrentfordtimes.co.uk
The Equinox, a crossover vehicle, gets better gas mileage than heaver sport-utility vehicles.
From the sacbee.com
Heaver made a tidy profit.
From the independent.co.uk
The stocks were initially produced by cutting down 1891 stocks and opening up the barrel channels to accommodate the heaver barrel.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Heaver, 41, and Mowat, 33, launched Serve Legal in late 2006 and now count Asda, Sainsbury's and many off licences and pub chains among their clients.
From the independent.co.uk
The ash was falling heaver now, like snow, though a light gray, with a layer of ash an inch deep on the branches of the trees and on the ground.
From the thenewstribune.com
I've been used to heaver breeds and using a tap of the whip so the horse uses all muscles to move, you do that on a race horse and you can consider it a suicide note.
From the independent.co.uk
Chia has, and his rotund bodies-thighs like boiled ham, buttocks like bumps, coal-heaver arms-are straight out of Rosai, though bigger and endowed with a crustier decorative surface.
From the time.com
I apologize for painting you too often with a broad brush, which I trust you will understand is an occupational hazard of my trade, that being a professional heaver of cats into flocks of pigeons.
From the post-gazette.com
More examples
  • A bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope)
  • A workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard)
  • One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver
  • A short wooden bar, tapering at each end. Used as a purchase.