Highfield lever Highfield lever A Highfield lever is a lever device which allows tension to be rapidly set up in a wire and equally rapidly released to the required extent. It is frequently used in sailing boats where tension in some part of the rigging needs to be adjusted to a pre-set amount as the wind impinges on one side of the sails or the other. It is typically used in running backstays (runners). To make it work, the backstay is led through a block or fairlead along the deck to a two-legged, second order lever mounted with its fulcrum above deck
Little Lever Little Lever Little Lever is a large village within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is southeast of Bolton, west of Radcliffe and west-southwest of Bury. During the 19th century the population was employed in cotton mills, paper mills, bleach works, terracotta works, a rope works and in numerous collieries. Lever is derived from the Old English "laefre", which means place where the rushes grow. The township was recorded as Parua Lefre in 1212, from the Latin, "parva" meaning little. The name was recorded in several ways, Lethre in 1221, Leuere in 1278,