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Lift :: Lift (n.) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.

Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it..

Assault :: Assault (n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery..

Lift :: Lift (n.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.

Exalt :: Exalt (v. t.) To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

Rise :: Rise (v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form..

Hoistaway :: Hoistaway (n.) A mechanical lift. See Elevator.

Upstare :: Upstare (v. i.) To stare or stand upward; hence, to be uplifted or conspicuous..

Heaving :: Heaving (n.) A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack..

Lift :: Lift (v. t.) To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle..

Tilt Hammer :: Tilt hammer () A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer..

Gammoning :: Gammoning (n.) The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays.

Trot :: Trot (v. i.) The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time..

Lift :: Lift (n.) A layer of leather in the heel.

Tiptoe :: Tiptoe (a.) Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert..

Bucket :: Bucket (n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.

Portamento :: Portamento (n.) In singing, or in the use of the bow, a gradual carrying or lifting of the voice or sound very smoothly from one note to another; a gliding from tone to tone..

Exalt :: Exalt (v. t.) To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate..

Relevation :: Relevation (n.) A raising or lifting up.

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