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

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..

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

Fulcrum :: Fulcrum (n.) That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body..

Lift :: Lift (v. i.) To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it..

Bed Screw :: Bed screw () A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching..

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..

Pace :: Pace (v. i.) To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack..

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..

Leash :: Leash (n.) A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom..

Griff :: Griff (n.) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.

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

Loft :: Loft (n.) That which is lifted up; an elevation.

Uphand :: Uphand (a.) Lifted by the hand, or by both hands; as, the uphand sledge..

High :: High (superl.) Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high..

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

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

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

Chain Pump :: Chain pump () A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the point of discharge..

Lift :: Lift (n.) A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals..

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