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lifter|ˈlɪftə(r)|
[f. lift v. + -er1.]
One who or that which lifts in senses of the vb.
1. a. One who lifts or raises, in either a material or an immaterial sense. Also with up.
1535Coverdale Ps. iii. 3 Thou (o Lorde) art..the lifter vp of my heade. 1552Huloet, Lifter wyth leuere, phalangarius. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Llevador, a bearer, a lifter. 1649Prynne Demurrer to Jews' Remitter 83 The greatest designers, plotters and lifters up of themselves against the interest of Christ. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 156/2 Musick..is a lifter of Dead, Drowsie and Melancholly Spirits. 1775Johnson Western Isl. Wks. X. 401 Long pieces of wood..to which the action of a long line of lifters might be applied. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 927 Two men at a vat, and a boy as a layer or lifter can make about 6 or 8 reams in 10 hours. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (1876) 366 The lifter-up to the nations of the banner of righteousness.
b. One who takes up dishonestly; a thief. Cf. cattle-lifter, shop-lifter.
a1592Greene Jas. IV, iii. i, Why, I am a lifter, maister, by occupation. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. ii. 129 1674–80 Cotton Compl. Gamester 5 Pads, Biters, Divers, Lifters..these may all pass under the general..appellation of Rooks. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxix, Ye needna ask whae Rob Roy is, the reiving lifter that he is. 1862Athenæum 30 Aug. 278 While in the ‘lifter's’ possession..they [books] had been enriched by numerous annotations. 1885Erminie 11 We are shifters, we are lifters, Working skilfully together.
c. One of a sect of Scottish presbyterians who considered it essential that the officiating minister should ‘lift’ a piece of sacramental bread while uttering the prayer of consecration.
1805Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 520 Hence..originated a schism, and the two parties were distinguished by the name of lifters and anti-lifters.
2. Something which lifts or is used for lifting.
a. Something which elevates or raises, in either a material or an immaterial sense; applied also to any simple implement, e.g. † a crutch, † a fork, a curved piece of iron for lifting a stove-lid, and in mod. slang to a heavy blow. Also with up.
1570Levins Manip. 76/36 A Lifter, forke, fuscina. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Lifter, a Crutch. 1706A. Bedford Temple Mus. viii. 158 Sakeph Gadol, or the Greater Lifter up; as if it designed the Musick to be very Loud. 1867W. W. Smyth Coal & Coal-mining 7 Used as a lifter of water to the top of water-wheels. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 665 Dreams..in antiquity, were thought to be of importance as lifters of the veil. 1889‘Mark Twain’ Yankee at Crt. K. Arthur xxxiii. 383 As long as I'm going to hit him at all, I'm going to hit him a lifter.
b. Technical uses: † (a) Anat. = levator 2. (b) Mining. The wooden beams used as stems for stamps in old-fashioned stamp-mills (Raymond Mining Gloss.) (c) Magnetism. The cross-piece of soft iron applied to the poles of a horse-shoe magnet. (d) Weaving. ? An appliance for raising and depressing the leaves of the heddles. (e) Steam-engine. The arm on a lifting-rod that raises the puppet-valve (Webster, 1864). (f) Paper-making. A bucket-wheel for raising the pulp from the reservoir to the trough. (g) Founding. ‘A tool for dressing the mould; also a contrivance attached to a cope to hold the sand together when the cope is lifted’ (Webster, 1864). (h) Surg. = elevator 2. (i) = lifting-cam.
(a)1649Bulwer Pathomyot. ii. i. 86 That Muscle of the shoulder-blade, from its office commonly called the Levator, or the Lifter.
(b)1671Phil. Trans. VI. 2108 Suffering the Lifters to fall with great force on the Ore, thereby breaking it into small sand. 1860Eng. & For. Mining Gloss. (Cornwall Terms), Lifters, wood beams, to which the iron heads of a stamping mill are fastened.
(c)1794G. Adams Nat. & Exper. Phil. IV. l. 387 The contact or lifter of soft iron to be placed at the other end of the bars. 1849Noad Electricity 396 The soft iron lifter of a horse-shoe magnet.
(d)1865B. Brierley Irkdale I. 236 A weaver..upon a ‘jacquard’ loom, had the misfortune to break one of the irons of her lifter.
(f)1839Ure Dict. Arts 938 The pressure of the pulp and water in the vat forces the pulp up the pipe into the lifter-box, whence it is taken by rotatory lifters, and discharged into a trough, where it runs down and mixes with the thick pulp from the chest.
(i)1852Burn Nav. & Milit. Dict. 11, Lifter or Lifting⁓cog, cam or wiper. 1884Pall Mall G. 28 Aug. 5/1 The lifter raises the central lever or pawl.
c. Cricket. A ball, usu. one from a fast bowler, that rises sharply after striking the pitch.
1959Times 28 July 4/7 He was caught off almost the only lifter of the day in his second [over]. 1974Daily Tel. 12 June 34/1 Gavaskar got an awkward lifter from Old and gave a soft catch to the gully. |