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

Trapdoor :: Trapdoor (n.) A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.

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..

Lift :: Lift (n.) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

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

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

Helve :: Helve (n.) A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

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..

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..

Elevate :: Elevate (v. t.) To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc..

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship..

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

Raising :: Raising (n.) The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life..

Toe :: Toe (n.) A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece..

Lift :: Lift (n.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.

Lift :: Lift (n.) The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

Mount :: Mount (v. t.) To raise aloft; to lift on high.

Lofty :: Lofty (superl.) Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.

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

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

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