lifting-screw

(lif’ting-skré), n. A contrivance turn lifted it from the pages of the Engineer. The Engineer, LXV. 424. for raising weight by means of a screw; a jack. II.+ in trans. To practise theft; steal. lifting-set (lif’ting-set), m. A series of pumps by which water is raised from the bottom of a The lifting law, says Dekker, “teacheth a kind of lifting of goods cleane awa ye.” mine by succe ive lifts. 2. H. Knight. Belman of London (1608). (Hall i well.) lifting-tongs (lif’ting-téngz), n.sing.and pl. A One other peculiar virtue you po e , in lifting, or form of tongs with concave jaws for grasping leiger-du-main. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, i. 1. and lifting crucibles. lift?+ (lift), n. [