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Lifting :: Lifting (a.) Used in, or for, or by, lifting..

Unlatch :: Unlatch (v. i.) To open or loose by lifting the latch; as, to unlatch a door..

Muscle :: Muscle (n.) Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting a heavy weight..

Ejector :: Ejector (n.) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.

Dipping :: Dipping (n.) The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like..

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..

Elation :: Elation (n.) A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.

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..

Lash :: Lash (n.) In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure..

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..

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

Grunter :: Grunter (n.) A hook used in lifting a crucible.

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

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..

Uplifting :: Uplifting (imp. & p. p.) of Uplif.

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

Tip :: Tip (n.) A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf..

Bell Jar :: Bell jar () A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view..

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

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

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