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

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

Camel :: Camel (n.) A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow water. By admitting water, the camel or camels may be sunk and attached beneath or at the sides of a vessel, and when the water is pumped out the vessel is lifted..

Jackscrew :: "Jackscrew (n.) A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5..

Grunter :: Grunter (n.) A hook used in lifting a crucible.

Lock :: Lock (n.) An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock..

Duty :: Duty (n.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States)..

Visor :: Visor (n.) A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it..

Upbuoyance :: Upbuoyance (n.) The act of buoying up; uplifting.

Dipping :: Dipping (n.) The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like..

Lift :: Lift (n.) An exercising machine.

Elevated :: Elevated (a.) Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts..

Lift :: Lift (v. t.) To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden..

Lifter :: Lifter (n.) One who, or that which, lifts..

Boom :: Boom (n.) A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended..

Elevator :: Elevator (n.) One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.

Elevate :: Elevate (v. t.) To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc..

Upheave :: Upheave (v. t.) To heave or lift up from beneath; to raise.

Lifter :: Lifter (n.) A tool for lifting loose sand from the mold; also, a contrivance attached to a cope, to hold the sand together when the cope is lifted..

Lift :: Lift (n.) That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifte.

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