ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Evener

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Evener is an adjective meaning comparative form of even: more even.

Meaning

comparative form of even: more even.

More Meanings

  1. One who, or that which, makes even.
  2. A raddle (instrument used by weavers).
  3. (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.

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.

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