The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lifting \Lift"ing\, a. Used in, or for, or by, lifting. Lifting bridge, a lift bridge. Lifting jack. See 2d Jack, 5. Lifting machine. See Health lift, under Health. Lifting pump. (Mach.)
A kind of pump having a bucket, or valved piston, instead of a solid piston, for drawing water and lifting it to a high level.
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A pump which lifts the water only to the top of the pump, or delivers it through a spout; a lift pump.
Lifting rod, a vertical rod lifted by a rock shaft, and imparting motion to a puppet valve; -- used in the engines of river steamboats.
Lifting sail (Naut.), one which tends to lift a vessel's bow out of water, as jibs and square foresails.
Usage examples of "lifting bridge".
The Second Squadron also carried short steel bars on their back braces, used when lifting bridge sections, indicating that they were bridge builders.
They crossed a lifting bridge which spanned the narrowest part of the harbor and walked past the vast boom which protected the inner haven in which the endangered Danish fleet was stored.