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lifting device

n. a device for lifting heavy loads

Usage examples of "lifting device".

The controls were propped out over the water on a pier and had an automatic lifting device for when the water rose too high.

It is a huge lifting device with cargo holds large enough to carry the town of Felix out to sea and still have room for thousands of bales of fiberplastic.

The major amputation was a person working in the mill who didn't have the sense to use some sort of lifting device to pick up one end of a huge beam.

He's a monster so vast that a special lifting device carries him from his ship to his throne room.

I've never seen anything like that uniform or that lifting device.

Though Geordi would have preferred to use an antigravity lifting device, the field of such a device could cause a nasty and potentially hazardous reaction within the interior of the core.

They simply went about the job of attaching the lifting device as they had to the other wreck.