Other Usage
In 1724 there was a rising against enclosures in Galloway, and a number of men who took part in it were called “Levellers” or “Dykebreakers”. The word was also used in Ireland during the eighteenth century to describe a secret revolutionary society similar to the Whiteboys.
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