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One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as:

Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces.

ergy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.

signed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.

The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.

The cage of a lift or elevator.

is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.

A mechanical lift. See Elevator.

, a cement or mortar made of hydraulic lime, which will harden under water. -- Hydraulic elevator, a lift operated by the weight or pressure of water. -- Hydraulic jack. See under Jack. -- Hydraulic lime, quicklime obtained from hydraulic limestone, and used for cementing under water, etc. -- Hydraulic limestone, a…

A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.

An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.

x denoting an agent or doer; as in auditor, one who hears; donor, one who gives; obligor, elevator. It is correlative to -ee. In general -or is appended to words of Latin, and -er to those of English, origin. See -er.

h which letters, packages, etc., are sent, by the flow and pressure of air. -- Pneumatic elevator, a hoisting machine worked by compressed air. -- Pneumatic pile, a tubular pile or cylinder of large diameter sunk by atmospheric pressure. -- Pneumatic pump, an air-exhausting or forcing pump. -- Pneumatic railway. Se…

enable a person to float in water; a safety belt. -- Safety cage (Mach.), a cage for an elevator or mine lift, having appliances to prevent it from dropping if the lifting rope should break. -- Safety lamp. (Mining) See under Lamp. -- Safety match, a match which can be ignited only on a surface specially prepared f…

A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a crane; a lift. [Prov. Eng.]

arious uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc. Trunk engine, a marine engine, the piston rod of which is a trunk. See Trunk, 10. -- Trunk hose, large breeches formerly worn, reaching to the knees. -- Trunk line, the main line of a railway, canal, or route of c…

An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.