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• Lift

  ·vt To live by theft. II. Lift ·noun An exercising machine. III. Lift ·noun A layer of leather in ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• lift

  1) To give one a lift; to assist. A good hand at a dead lift; a good hand upon an emergency. To lift...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• lift

  v. tr. to drive to market from the run. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Squatter's Dream,' c. iv. p. 45: ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• lift

  Used by the farmers in some parts of New England to signify a sort of gate without hinges.--Pickerin...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• lift

  a stile that may be opened like a gate. Norf. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• newman's lift

  The gallows. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• dead-lift

  The moving of a very inert body. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• davit-topping-lift

  A rope made fast to the outer end of a davit, and rove through a block made fast to a vessel's mast ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• lift an anchor, to

  Either by the purchase; or a ship if she has not sufficient cable on a steep bank lifts, or shoulder...

  The Sailor's Word-Book