Definition of lift

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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.

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Cage :: Cage (n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft..
Relevation :: Relevation (n.) A raising or lifting up.
Lift :: Lift (v. t.) To live by theft.
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..
Valve :: Valve (n.) A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid..
Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The act of hoisting; a lift.
Tip :: Tip (n.) A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf..
Cog :: Cog (n.) A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel..
Lift :: Lift (n.) An exercising machine.
Dumb-waiter :: Dumb-waiter (n.) A framework on which dishes, food, etc., are passed from one room or story of a house to another; a lift for dishes, etc.; also, a piece of furniture with movable or revolving shelves..
Rear :: Rear (v. t.) To lift and take up.
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..
Election :: Election (a.) The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor..
Lift :: Lift (v. t.) To bear; to support.
Lifted :: Lifted (imp. & p. p.) of Lif.
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.
Lift :: Lift (n.) A handle.
Uphold :: Uphold (v. t.) To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
Mount :: Mount (v. t.) To raise aloft; to lift on high.
Exalt :: Exalt (v. t.) To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.
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