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Lofty :: Lofty (superl.) Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.

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

Heave :: Heave (v. t.) To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land..

Car :: Car (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.

Race :: Race (v. i.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea..

Niblick :: Niblick (n.) A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc..

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..

Raising :: Raising (n.) The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life..

Horse Power :: Horse power () A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per second

Toss :: Toss (v. t.) To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head..

Extol :: Extol (v. t.) To place on high; to lift up; to elevate.

Lift :: Lift (n.) Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon..

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..

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

Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything..

Clifted :: Clifted (a.) Broken; fissured.

Box :: Box (n.) A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

Underheave :: Underheave (v. i.) To heave or lift from below.

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..

Crane :: Crane (v. t.) To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up..

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