Definition of "levering" []

• Present participle of lever. (verb)

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• "But the time spent in levering up one stone, and the impossibility of loading up more than about a dozen large ones on a pack-saddle, made the labour and loss of time quite appalling."
• "While describing this as "levering" is confused, I think, I don't disagree."
• "He also notes that "the Obama campaign has to date positioned itself on the progressive side of Northern politics", but the issues he refers to will at the very least need some kind of levering the 2005 Enquiries Act if there's to be any movement onwards on digging out the truth about the past …"