evener

noun — 3 senses

evener

noun
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

Dated In 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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