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- noun Plural form of
leveller .
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Examples
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If two "levellers" of equal height are used with a third of less height placed at the centre of the course, with perhaps others of intermediate height used at intermediate points, it would obviously be equally easy to set out a curved course, as, for instance, the curved stylobate of the Parthenon which rises about three inches in its length of one hundred feet.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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But the "levellers," -- for so that party in the army was called, -- having experienced the sweets of dominion, would not so easily be deprived of it.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell David Hume 1743
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The second of United's levellers was expertly taken by the substitute Michael Owen for his first league goal of the season.
Manchester United worried by Wayne Rooney injury after draw at Bolton Kevin McCarra at the Reebok Stadium 2010
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Hadrian, do you really think Cromwell -- the man who crushed the levellers, abolished parliament, murdered the Irish, and banned Christmas -- was a hero of British democracy?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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People work in the hope their children will have a better chance and this basic prudence is hated by the levellers who want all the middling to re-start at zero at each generation.
Archive 2007-08-12 Newmania 2007
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YouTube and ubiquitous video cameras are going to be great levellers.
Video Shows Police Knocked Down Man Who Died During G-20 Protests - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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People work in the hope their children will have a better chance and this basic prudence is hated by the levellers who want all the middling to re-start at zero at each generation.
Inheritance Tax - We Should Keep It Newmania 2007
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The Green Trojan Horse is full of reds, levellers, anti-capitalists, science-jobsworths and class warriors.
THE RISING TIDE.... 2009
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Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers.
Les Miserables 2008
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Not a pretty sight, but that's cricket for you: it's one of life's truly humbling levellers.
Archive 2008-05-01 ROB McGIBBON 2008
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