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▪ I. lifting, vbl. n.|ˈlɪftɪŋ|
[f. lift v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the vb. lift in various senses. Also lifting up. † Also concr. in hand-lifting: so much as can be taken up by the hand. † at the lifting: on the point of removal.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 204 Glotoun was a gret cherl and grym in þe lyftynge. a1400–50Alexander 567 Stanys [which] Fell fra þe fyrmament as a hand lyftyng. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 107 The lyftyngys vppe of the crosse. 1551Bible Gen. xxiv. marg. note, The exercise of the spirit & lyftynge vp of the mind to God, ar called medytacions. 1590Jas. VI Sp. Gen. Assembly Aug., As for our Neighbour Kirk in England..they want nothing of the Masse, but the liftings. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 322 Surbating ..cometh..sometime by the hardness of the ground, and high lifting of the horse. a1662Heylin Laud i. 170 There had been some liftings at him in the Court by Sir John Cook. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (Bannatyne Club) I. 240 This army..by and attour 10000 baggage men is now at the lifting. 1674–80Cotton Compl. Gamester 92 In the lifting for dealing the least deals. c1730Burt Lett. Gentl. N. Scotl. (1754) II. 230 The stealing of their Cows they call Lifting, a soft'ning Word for Theft. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxiii. 285 A sudden lifting of the fog showed them the cape. 1872Hardwick Trad. Lanc. 74 The ‘lifting’ of women by men on Easter Monday. 1884Pae Eustace xix. 244 The cargo is ours for the lifting. 1901W. D. Howells Lit. Friends ii. vi. 89 In a lifting of the rain he walked with me down to the village.
b. The raising of sick or weak cattle to enable them to stand. Cf. lift v. 1 f. So at the lifting, very weak.
1812W. Singer Agric. County of Dumfries 220 They become quite lean, almost ‘at the lifting’, as the farmers say. 1899H. G. Graham Social Life Scotl. 18th Cent. I. 155 This period and this annual operation when all neighbours were summoned to carry and support the poor beasts, were known as the ‘Lifting’. 1901M. Franklin My Brilliant Career (1966) v. 18 My mother and father and I spent the day in lifting our cows... This cow-lifting became quite a trade.
c. In competitive walking, the raising of the rear heel before the front foot touches the ground.
1867Athlete 1866 119 Lifting, the usual method of walking unfairly, is done by getting a spring from the toe of one foot on to the heel of the other. 1898F. A. Cohen in W. A. Morgan ‘House’ on Sport 433 What is technically called ‘lifting’ is, except perhaps in a final burst, seldom of any real advantage.
2. attrib. and Comb.
a. gen., as lifting power, lifting trade;
b. a contrivance or portion of a machine adapted for lifting, as lifting-bar, lifting-blade, lifting-cog, lifting-crane, lifting-gear, lifting-hitch, lifting-hook, lifting-pallet, lifting-piece, lifting-rod, lifting-screw, lifting-tongs, lifting-wire; lifting beam, a beam, fitted to a crane hook, to which a load may be attached in two or more places; lifting-cam, a cam or projection by which a lifting movement is effected, e.g. in firearms; lifting-day local = heaving-day; lifting-dog, (a) = lifting-cam; (b) (see quot. 18812); lifting-jack (see Jack n.1 10); lifting plate (see quot. 1888); lifting screw, a hook with a threaded shank which can be screwed into an object to facilitate its lifting (see also lifting ppl. a.).
1831G. R. Porter Silk Manuf. 247 The *lifting bars which in shape are something like blunted knife blades.
1963R. Hammond Mobile & Movable Cranes vi. 167 Aluminium-alloy *lifting beams are very useful for getting the most out of crane-lifting capacity. 1969Jane's Freight Containers 1968–69 130/1 There are new lifting beams used with existing straddle cranes to handle 24 ft. and 20 ft. containers.
1881Greener Gun 359 The *lifting-cams or ‘dogs’, are dispensed with. 1852*Lifting-cog [see lifter 2 b (i)].
1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 206/2 These three requisites are very beautifully combined..in the *lifting crane.
1881Greener Gun 264 Knock the wire pivot right through the *lifting dogs. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Lifting-dog, a claw-hook for grasping a column of bore-rods while raising or lowering them.
1887Daily News 22 Oct. 2/7 The pinnace was crushed through the breaking of the *lifting gear.
1831G. R. Porter Silk Manuf. 247 Half the number of *lifting hooks are attached to the lifting bars.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 513 That the end of the..spring..may project a little way over the point of the *lifting-pallet.
1704Harris Lex. Techn., *Lifting-pieces, are Parts of a Clock, which do lift up and unlock the Detents in the Clock-part. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 217 There are four pins in the minute wheel for raising the quarter lifting piece.
1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 208 *Lifting plates, plates of wrought or malleable cast iron furnished with holes both for rapping and screwing, and let into or screwed on the faces of patterns; and by which they are lifted from the sand, a lifting screw being inserted into the tapped hole in the plate. 1925J. G. Horner Pattern Making (ed. 5) iii. 56 Screws..either twisted into the wood of the pattern or..fitting into corresponding tapped holes in the lifting plates attached to the pattern face, are used.
1849Noad Electricity 357 A much greater *lifting power has..been obtained with other varieties of the electro-magnet.
1885J. G. Horner Pattern Making xxii. 158 Figs. 206, 207 show two different forms of these [sc. rapping] plates, a being the plain hole for rapping, b the tapped hole for the reception of a *lifting-screw. 1925― Pattern Making (ed. 5) iii. 59 A central hole bored through the boss for the lifting screw. 1944E. D. Howard Mod. Foundry Practice 383/1 (Index), Lifting screw.
1709Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) II. 185 This Gentleman..is remarkable for carrying on the *lifting Trade.
Add:[1.] d. pl. Comm. The amount of a product, usu. mineral oil, transported through or out of a particular place, or by a particular means.
1973Oil & Gas Jrnl. 29 Oct. 51/3 Exxon Corp...listed gross production of 2.59 million b/d and liftings of another 411,000 b/d. 1983Austral. Transport Aug. 11/3 Liftings have increased dramatically since we concluded this agreement. We are increasing our capacity at a time when other lines are cutting back. 1988Financial Times 22 Mar. 30/5 MISC said that, although the current levels of liftings in the liner container trade and freight and charter hire rates should hold for the first half of this year, long-term prospects are still uncertain.
[2.] [b.] lifting tape Criminol., a kind of adhesive tape used for lifting fingerprints.
1942B. C. Bridges Pract. Fingerprinting xiii. 258 With this type of *lifting tape there is provided celluloid or acetate cover material to which the tape may be affixed after the latent impression has been lifted. Ibid., The technique of using this transparent lifting tape is easy. 1983J. F. Cowger Friction Ridge Skin iv. 87 After making the lift, lifting tape is adhered to lift cards.
▪ II. lifting, ppl. a.|ˈlɪftɪŋ|
[f. lift v. + -ing2.]
That lifts, in senses of the vb., spec. in lifting-bridge, a bridge of which either a part or the whole may be drawn up at one end when needful; lifting-gate = lift n.2 15; lifting-pump, any pump other than a force-pump; lifting-sail, a sail whose action tends to lift the bows out of the water; lifting-set, ‘the series of pumps by which water is raised from the bottom of a mine by successive lifts’ (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875). Also, in Aeronaut., providing lift; lifting body, a (wingless) spacecraft with a shape designed to produce lift, so that some aerodynamic control of its flight is possible within the atmosphere; lifting screw, a rotor operating in a horizontal plane so as to provide lift for a flying machine (see also lifting vbl. n.).
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 443 After harde dayez wern out an hundreth & fyfte, As þat lyftande lome [the ark] luged aboute. 1686J. Dunton Lett. fr. New-Eng. (1867) 8 Even the Parson himselfe..gave me a lifting hand. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) IX. 17/2 Of lifting-pumps there are several sorts. 1839R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Eng. 65 On the top of the air bucket fits the lifting valve. 1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 1148 Swing, lifting, or rolling bridges are..in such cases indispensable. 1875Carpentry & Join. 135 These double-legged tables are very generally made with a rack to allow of their rising by the application of a lifting force. 1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 205 The jib and flying-jib are..lifting sails. 1894Daily News 19 June 6/5 The supremely interesting feature of this really great work are the lifting bascules. 1895–6Cal. Univ. Nebraska 215 By its use the extensor or lifting muscles are developed. 1898Daily News 16 Nov. 7/1 The mechanism of the lifting roadway is so perfect in its action. 1902F. Walker Aërial Navigation v. 79 The lifting screws. 1908Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts LVII. 53/1 The Helicoptère, or lifting-screw flying machine. 1919H. Shaw Textbk. Aeronaut. ix. 111 In some machines it is arranged that the tail carries a portion of the load, when it is known as a ‘lifting’ tail. 1923Daily Mail 12 Feb. 7 While aloft the pilot can change the action of his planes so that they cease to act as vertical lifting-screws and function like the surfaces of an aeroplane. 1935P. W. F. Mills Elem. Pract. Flying i. 1 Aeroplanes..cannot fly backwards owing to their fixed thrust direction and the arrangement of their lifting surfaces. 1964Britannica Bk. of Year 868/1 Lifting body, a wingless, somewhat bathtub-shaped vehicle for aerospace travel that combines some of the heat-handling capacity of a capsule with some of the maneuverability of a wingless aircraft. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. VI. 388/2 The disk loading [of a helicopter]..expresses the design gross weight as a function of the swept areas of the lifting rotor. 1969K. Munson Pioneer Aircraft 1903–14 104/2 The Blériot III was also a floatplane, with annular lifting surfaces fore and aft. 1972A. C. Kermode Mech. of Flight (ed. 8) xii. 390 These lifting bodies are but a step towards a shuttle service operating to and from a space station orbiting the earth. |