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Lifting device   /lˈɪftɪŋ dɪvˈaɪs/   Listen
Lifting device

noun
1.
A device for lifting heavy loads.






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"Lifting device" Quotes from Famous Books



... aspiring souls who sought to fly with wings—the forerunners of the airplane devotees of to-day—were those who tried to find some direct lifting device for a car which should contain the aviators. Some of their ideas were curiously logical and at the same time comic. There was, for example, a priest, Le Pere Galien of Avignon. He observed that the rarified air at the summit of the Alps was vastly ...
— Aircraft and Submarines - The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day - Uses of War's Newest Weapons • Willis J. Abbot



Words linked to "Lifting device" :   winch, windlass, crane, device, hoist, lift, elevator



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