Definitions for lifter

lifter lift·er

Spelling: [lif-ter]
IPA: /ˈlɪf tər/

Lifter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in lifter (efilrt).

Definitions for lifter

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 lifter

First recorded in 1525-35; lift + -er1

Examples for lifter

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for lifter
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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