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Cuddy :: Cuddy (n.) A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc..

Heaver :: Heaver (n.) One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver..

Enhance :: Enhance (v. t.) To raise or lift up; to exalt.

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

Forelift :: Forelift (v. t.) To lift up in front.

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..

Upraise :: Upraise (v. t.) To raise; to lift up.

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..

Assault :: Assault (n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery..

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

Boom :: Boom (n.) A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended..

Lift :: Lift (v. i.) To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

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

Upheave :: Upheave (v. t.) To heave or lift up from beneath; to raise.

Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it..

Horse Power :: Horse power () A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per second

Elevator :: Elevator (n.) One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.

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

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..

Suspense :: Suspense (a.) Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.

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