lifting : Idioms & Phrases

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Lifting bridge

  • a lift bridge.
Webster 1913

Lifting jack

  • . See 2d Jack, 5.
Webster 1913

Lifting machine

  • . See Health lift, under Health.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913

Lifting rod

  • a vertical rod lifted by a rock shaft, and imparting motion to a puppet valve; used in the engines of river steamboats.
Webster 1913

Lifting sail

  • (Naut.), one which tends to lift a vessel's bow out of water, as jibs and square foresails.
Webster 1913