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dead lift
[See dead a. 28, and lift n.]
1. The pull of a horse, etc., exerting his utmost strength at a dead weight beyond his power to move.
1551R. Robinson tr. More's Utop. ii. (Arb.) 76 Oxen..they graunte to be not so good as horses at a sodeyne brunte, and (as we saye) at a deade lifte. 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. 186 When horses are attached to a weight beyond their strength to move, they frequently refuse to try a second time; in such a case it is said ‘they won't pull at a dead lift’. On the other hand it is common to hear a seller say of a horse, ‘I'll warn un to pull twenty times following to a dead-lift’.
2. fig. A position or juncture in which one can do no more, an extremity, ‘a hopeless exigence’ (J.). Usually in phrase at a dead lift. (Very common in the 17th c.: now arch. or dial.)
1567Harman Caveat 34 And to these at a ded lyft, or last refuge, they maye..repayre. 1588J. Udall Diotrephes (Arb.) 25 You must helpe vs at that dead lift, or else we are vndone. 1625–6Shirley Maid's Rev. iii. ii, Medicine he carried always in the pommel of his sword, for a dead lift; a very active poison. 1641J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 7 All-sufficient, he comes in at a dead lift, and he is able to turn things in a moment. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. xxi. 137 Then [in a shipwreck] they betook themselves to their prayers, the best lever at such a dead lift indeed. 1754Berthelson Eng.-Dan. Dict., He helped me at a dead lift, hand satte mig paa fœd igien. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) iv. s.v. Nero, None would do the wretch [Nero] the favour to kill him; and..he had not the heart to help himself at a dead lift. 18..M. Edgeworth Stories of Ireland v, It's only jockeying—fine sport—and very honourable, to help a friend, at a dead lift. 1814J. Gilchrist Reason 88, I would not slip off from a dead lift, forgetting to come back to it.
3. An effort in which the whole strength is applied to lift or move something; a sheer lift; a supreme effort. rare.
1882Morris Hopes & Fears for Art i. 21 It is such a heavy question by what effort, by what dead-lift, you can thrust this difficulty from you.
Add:[3.] (Earlier and later examples.) Also, a lift made without mechanical or other assistance; spec. in Weightlifting, the controlled raising of a weight from the floor to hip-level and back again; an instance of this.
1828in Webster. a1865Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. (1867) 236 Dead-lift, the moving of a very inert body. 1910W. S. Churchill in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1969) II. Compan. ii. xiii. 969 Even if by a dead-lift effort we succeeded in carrying it..the work would remain unfinished. 1942Life 20 Apr. 92/2 (caption) Joe Frank..makes a new National A.A.U. record in the one-hand dead lift. 1954J. Murray Weight Lifting ii. 43 The best clearly authenticated dead lift on record is 725 pounds. 1986Strength Athlete June/July 33/4 The pulling speed used in the deadlift..is slower because of the heavier load. |