evener

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noun

One who, or that which, makes even.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

adjective
  1. comparativecomparative form of even: more even

    I prefer the white pine, because it is less liable to gutter with the rain, and makes an evener roof.

    1853, Samuel Strickland, Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West
nounevener (plural eveners)

plural eveners

  1. One who, or that which, makes even.

    Hers is not simply a plea for the value of tragedy, for that awareness of death which increases incentives for life; it is rather a negative use of death as the great leveler, the evener of scores.

    1966, Wilfred Healey Stone, The Cave and the Mountain: A Study of E. M. Forster, page 254
  2. datedIn vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.
  3. A raddle (instrument used by weavers).

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APA

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Chicago

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