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plural olivers
(archaic, rare) A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot. quotations
I hear, with the song that she sings me in lullaby tones, / The noise of the nailshops, the ringing of hammers, the groans / Of deep-heaving bellows, the "oliver's" thud on the die, […]
1903, John Cotton, Chimes and Rhymes, page 66