Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
health-lift .
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Examples
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While at Rochester, as I was passing through the principal street, I met a crowd assembled about a lifting-machine.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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The man with the lifting-machine pulled at the handles himself, a gratuitous exhibi - tion before a circle of boys now penniless.
Oldport Days 1873
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The man with the lifting-machine pulled at the handles himself, a gratuitous exhibition before a circle of boys now penniless.
Oldport Days Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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