Word Meanings - LIFTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. A kind of pump having a bucket, or valved piston, instead of a solid piston,

Additional info about word: LIFTING

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

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  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• VALVE-SHELL
  Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
• SOLIDARE
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• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
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• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• UNDERSAY
  To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
• UNDERTAPSTER
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  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• UNDERDELVE
  To delve under.
• UNDERSTOOD
  imp. & p. p. of Understand.
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