Lifting
Lift·ing
Lifting
a.
- Used in, or for, or by, lifting.
Phrases & Compounds
- Lifting bridge
- a lift bridge.
- Lifting jack
- See 2d Jack, 5.
- Lifting machine
- See Health lift, under Health.
- Lifting pump
- 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.
- 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
- one which tends to lift a vessel's bow out of water, as jibs and square foresails.