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Word Meanings - LIFTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tool for lifting loose sand from the mold; also, a contrivance attached to a cope, to hold the sand together when the cope is lifted. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, lifts.

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  • LIFT
    The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • LOOSE
    laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
  • LOOSEN
    Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • LOOSESTRIFE
    The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
  • ATTACH
    tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack to fasten. Cf. Attack, and see 1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to
  • LOOSENESS
    The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
  • ATTACHABLE
    Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.
  • TOGETHER
    togædre, togadere; to to + gador together. *29. See To, prep., and 1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can
  • ATTACHE
    One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.
  • 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,
  • LOOSELY
    In a loose manner.
  • LOOSENER
    One who, or that which, loosens.
  • LIFTER
    A tool for lifting loose sand from the mold; also, a contrivance attached to a cope, to hold the sand together when the cope is lifted. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, lifts.
  • CONTRIVANCE
    1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley. 2. The thing contrived, invented,
  • LIFTABLE
    Such as can be lifted.
  • ATTACHMENT
    1. The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party. 2. That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.
  • REATTACHMENT
    The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
  • UNLOOSEN
    To loosen; to unloose.
  • SHOPLIFTER
    One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal.
  • ALTOGETHER
    1. All together; conjointly. Altogether they wenChaucer. 2. Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5.
  • OUTLOOSE
    A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.
  • FORELIFT
    To lift up in front.
  • CLIFTED
    Broken; fissured. Climb the Andeclifted side. Grainger.
  • SHOPLIFTING
    Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.

 

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