| 单词 |
levier |
| 释义 |
levier|ˈlɛvɪə(r)| Also 5, 8–9 levyer, 6 leavier. [f. levy v. + -er1.] One who levies (in senses of the vb.).
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 436 Of this taxe to be leuyers or gaderers was assygned y⊇ pryncypall men of the sayd townes. 1611Florio, Liuellatore, a leauier or raiser of taxes or fines. 1656Prynne Rights Eng. Freemen 30 Any Levier of them [sc. taxes], or imprisoner of refusers of them. 1701De Foe Power People Misc. (1703) 136 You are..the Levyers of our Taxes. 1831Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 482 Here is a distinct levying of war against the King's people; officers pointed out on whom the leviers think dependence can be placed. 1885Stevenson Dynamiter 203 The levyers of a..war. 1888R. Dowling Miracle Gold II. xiv. 7, I am not a levier of blackmail. |

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