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n. A mechanism used for raising and lowering boats on a canal#Noun vertically from one water level to another.
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A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock and the canal inclined plane.
It may be either vertically moving, like the ship lifts in Germany, Belgium, the lift at " Les Fontinettes" in France or the Anderton boat lift in England, or rotational, like the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland.
A boat lift is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations.
Boat lift may refer to:
- The Boatlift, an album by rapper Pitbull
- Mariel boatlift, a mass emigration of Cubans who departed from Mariel, Cuba for the United States
- Shiplift, device to lift small watercraft above the water level at a dock for storage
Usage examples of "boat lift".
Astride the Wind ignored them both, only barely feeling the boat lift and turn in the direction of Embracing the Clouds's flight.
He watched the long torpedo boat lift its nose and charge around the rock at a respectful distance, trailing a great worm of smoke that flattened.
An open cruiser crouched on a boat lift next to the floating dock.