Definition of lift

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

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Trapdoor :: Trapdoor (n.) A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.
Lift :: Lift (n.) The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift..
Lift :: Lift (v. t.) To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle..
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..
Spadeful :: Spadeful (n.) As much as a spade will hold or lift.
Lift :: Lift (v. t.) To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up..
Shovel :: Shovel (v. t.) An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances..
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..
Lifter :: Lifter (n.) One who, or that which, lifts..
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.
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..
Pulley :: Pulley (b. t.) To raise or lift by means of a pulley.
Elate :: Elate (a.) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
Shoplifter :: Shoplifter (n.) One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal..
Lofty :: Lofty (superl.) Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.
Force Pump :: Force pump () A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger..
Uplift :: Uplift (n.) A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like..
Extol :: Extol (v. t.) To place on high; to lift up; to elevate.
Niblick :: Niblick (n.) A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc..
Porter :: Porter (n.) A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar..
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