Definitions for lifters

lifters lift·er

Spelling: [lif-ter]
IPA: /ˈlɪf tər/

Lifters is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 263 anagrams from letters in lifters (efilrst).

Definitions for lifters

noun

  1. a person or thing that lifts.
  2. Machinery. a device or machine part used for lifting another part, as a cam used for lifting a valve in an engine.

Origin of lifters

First recorded in 1525-35; lift + -er1

Examples for lifters

In chemical works it raises liquids so corrosive that no other lifter is feasible.

A lifter went by stacked with cases of M-504 submachine guns.

This lifter is as useful as those bought for fifteen or twenty-five cents, and costs nothing.

The curved toe on the rock-shaft operates on the lifter attached to the lifting rod to raise the valve.

He is likely to be a lifter and not a leaner, a doer and not a talker.

For oil wells, which may be 2000 or more feet in depth, a lifter not so simple is employed.

The water samples are not so reliable, because they freeze in the lifter.

The jack was the bearer of bundles, a lifter, a puller, a worker.

Picking it up with the lifter, he swung it and threw it into the stream.

He had been living with us for a week before I found out he was a lifter.

Word Value for lifters
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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