lever

A simple machine consisting of a rigid bar pivoted on a fixed point and used to transmit force, as in raising or moving a weight at one end by pushing down on the other.

A projecting handle used to adjust or operate a mechanism.

A means of accomplishing; a tool.

To move or lift with a lever.

To move (oneself, for example) in a manner resembling the use of a lever.

To fund at least in part with borrowed money; leverage.

To act upon, as raising, lowering, etc., with a lever.

An obsolete comparative of lief.

A simple machine, consisting of a bar or rigid piece of any shape, acted upon at different points by two forces which severally tend to rotate it in opposite directions about a fixed axis.

In special uses— In surgery, an instrument for applying power, as one of the arms of an obstetrical forceps, used in delivery as a tractor; the vectis.