Levered [verb]

The Turk—for such he evidently was—have levered himself from the ground by means of the window-ledge.

I reached the chart table, almost falling over my leaden feet, seized a short permal T-square, and levered the cover up.

Slowly Nivin levered his lank frame out of the chair and moved a pace like a somnambulist and stood staring at those fingers.

He levered his great bulk off the desk, upon which he had sat while he announced the doom of the planet.

It was Rodman, too, who before the game had discovered and levered away a small boulder, hidden near one of the goal posts.

My popularity has levered those two poor little pictures off.

Ross levered himself up to sight the mark of the burn across that roan hide where the fire had blistered the skin.

And then, above, the first man reached the hole, clawed at its rough edges and levered himself through.

Sometimes a beast would not jump, and had to be levered and bundled into the punt neck and crop.

McHale's rifle action clicked and clashed as he levered a cartridge from magazine to chamber.