Definition of "levellers" [levellers]

• Plural form of leveller. (noun)

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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."
• "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 second of United's levellers was expertly taken by the substitute Michael Owen for his first league goal of the season."