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English
Noun
side-lever (plural side-levers)
- (Australia, obsolete) Sideburn.
1934, Brian Penton, chapter 2, in Landtakers: The Story of an Epoch:In the Byronic fashion of the period the hair falls into a curling side-lever on each cheek.
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 212:Riding Misanthropy was test of manhood enough for Tim. What if the fellow cleaned his teeth and reamed his nails and wore side-lever whiskers?
1938 July 7, John E. Bennett, “Dr William Hobbs”, in The Central Queensland Herald, Rockhampton, QLD:He was […] clean shaved with the exception of very short reddish side lever whiskers.