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Lifting :: Lifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lif.

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..

Cast :: Cast (n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift..

Light :: Light (superl.) Not burdensome; easy to be lifted, borne, or carried by physical strength; as, a light burden, or load..

Clift :: Clift (n.) A cliff.

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

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

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

Erect :: Erect (a.) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.

Clift :: Clift (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.

Pulley :: Pulley (b. t.) To raise or lift by means of a pulley.

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..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form..

Lift :: Lift (v. t.) To bear; to support.

Hoist :: Hoist (n.) That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.

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

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

Gallop :: Gallop (v. i.) A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds..

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

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

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