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lev⋅el⋅er

[lev-uh-ler]
–noun
a person or thing that levels.
Also, especially British, leveller.


Origin:
1590–1600; level + -er 1
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lev·el·er also lev·el·ler   (lěv'ə-lər)   
n.  
  1. One that levels: a leveler of boards.

    1. One who advocates the abolition of social inequities.

    2. Leveller A member of an English radical political movement arising in the Parliamentarian forces of the 1640s and advocating universal male suffrage, equality before the law, parliamentary democracy, and religious tolerance.

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