sb. Obs. rare–1. [? f. cole, COAL + WEIGH.] A lever.
1600. Holland, Livy, XXVII. xxviii. 649. They began … to heave and to weigh it [the Port-cullis] from the ground with leavers and cole-weighs [vectibus].
Hence † Coleweigh v., to raise with a lever.
1649. Blithe, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1652), 238. So coleweigh up your pole.
