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/lˈɪftər/ Listen

noun

Lifter n.

One who, or that which, lifts.

(Founding) 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.

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Etymology of 'Lifter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lifter" Quotes from Famous Books

... Everard Charlett, whom he remember'd Commoner of University College, and thought was of the same Family as Dr. Arthur Charlett, now master of ye Coll. This Charlett was a personable young gent., but a loose atheistical companion, and a great Lifter, as they then call'd the hard drinkers, and for what I know do so now. He was noted, and subject to severall censures at different times for his extravagancies: and if the full history of his debaucheries ...

— A Thin Ghost and Others • M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

... his little messenger, his useful Mercury," Hewitt explained, tapping the cage complacently; "in fact, the actual lifter. Hold him up!" ...

— Martin Hewitt, Investigator • Arthur Morrison

... have tried to work me over. Onct I crawled in a winder and et up a batch of 'son-of-a-gun-in-a-sack' that the feller who lived there had jest made. He come in upon me suddent, and the way he hammered me over the head with the stove-lifter didn't trouble him, but," declared Tubbs proudly, "he never even knocked me ...

— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart

... had Bradamant above the sill Lifter her foot, and trod the secret cave, When the live spirit, in clear tones that thrill, Addressed the martial virgin from the grave; "May Fortune, chaste and noble maid, fulfil Thine every wish!" exclaimed the wizard ...

— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto

... This lifter will save many a climb of the step-ladder, besides doing the work of hanging and removing ...

— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 30, June 3, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various