dead-lift

He took on every style they threw him and he, along with runner-up Twitch, were the only two men strong enough to dead-lift their partners above their heads for brilliant spins in their respective ballroom numbers.

America Got It Right: Joshua Allen Can Dance! 2008

He took on every style they threw him and he, along with runner-up Twitch, were the only two men strong enough to dead-lift their partners above their heads for brilliant spins in their respective ballroom numbers.

Archive 2008-08-01 2008

As a senior, he won the state title in weight lifting, lifting a career-best total of 1,450 pounds in the bench press, squat and dead-lift.

USATODAY.com 2005

A hexagonal configuration gives these rods a 30 percent fiber content advantage over conventional tubular rods, resulting in great strength, incredible dead-lift power and increased sensitivity per weight.

Cape Fear Advance Tech 1999

We know that faith is not a dead-lift of the brain, a supreme effort either for God or for ourselves.

The Lost Art of Reading Gerald Stanley Lee 1903

Neither now or at any time did Mr. Gladstone set too low a value on that great dead-lift effort, not too familiar in history, to heave off a burden from the conscience of the nation, and set back the bounds of cruel wrong upon the earth.

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880

A smart student wins a scholarship or two, and his parents or relatives make a dead-lift effort to scrape money so that the clever fellow may go well through his course.

The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871

But the hand has written, and true discipline cannot survive very much longer unless we rouse ourselves for a dead-lift effort.

The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871

I am sure that dead-lift individual effort will eventually reduce the ills arising from alcohol to a minimum, and I am equally sure that the blind groping of half-informed men who chatter at St. St.phen's will never do more good than the chatter of the same number of jackdaws.

The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871

There is no reason to doubt that, for some characters, the only way of becoming Christians is to become so by one dead-lift of resolution.

Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Alexander Maclaren 1868