evener
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
comparative form of even: more even
noun
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.
Dated
noun
A raddle (instrument used by weavers).
Example Sentences
- "I prefer the white pine, because it is less liable to gutter with the rain, and makes an evener roof."
- "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."