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/lˈɪftɪŋ/ Listen

adjective

Lifting adj. Used in, or for, or by, lifting.

Lifting bridge, a lift bridge.

Lifting jack. See 2d Jack, 5.

Lifting machine. See Health lift, under Health.

Lifting pump. (Mach.)

(a)

A kind of pump having a bucket, or valved piston, instead of a solid piston, for drawing water and lifting it to a high level.

(b)

A pump which lifts the water only to the top of the pump, or delivers it through a spout; a lift pump.

Lifting rod, a vertical rod lifted by a rock shaft, and imparting motion to a puppet valve; used in the engines of river steamboats.

Lifting sail (Naut.), one which tends to lift a vessel's bow out of water, as jibs and square foresails.

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Etymology of 'Lifting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lifting" Quotes from Famous Books

... I must and will!' said he, lifting his head from the carved chimney-piece, where he had been resting it. 'I have been in will a murderer myself, and what right have I to repine like the Israelites, with their self-justifying proverb? No; let me be thankful that I was not given up even then, but have been able to repent, and ...

— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge

... overcoat the physician struck a match within the shelter of its flap, and by its flare scanned the small face from which he had brushed away the snow. Then he uttered another exclamation of surprise and lifting the little, rigid figure in his arms, folded his great-coat about it and started forward ...

— Divided Skates • Evelyn Raymond

... they are larger than a goose egg, and of a more delicious flavour than any other egg in the world. Their shell is beautifully pink tinted, and so terribly fragile that, if a person is not careful in lifting them, the fingers will crunch through the tinted shell in an instant. Therefore, carrying a dozen of such eggs is no easy matter. I took upon myself the responsibility of bringing our prize safe into camp, and I accomplished ...

— Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles

... a deer, fairly lifting the narrow sleigh, and with tails fluttering from his fur robes, his cap's coon tail streaming behind, away up the tote-road went Gideon Ward on his return to the deep woods, the mighty din of his myriad bells clashing down the forest aisles. At the ...

— The Rainy Day Railroad War • Holman Day

... out by herself into the park, and made her way to the banks of the canal. As she was playing thoughtlessly near the water, she fell in. Her cries attracted the pony, which, galloping forward, plunged into the water, and lifting her in his mouth, brought ...

— Stories of Animal Sagacity • W.H.G. Kingston

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