one who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything-a mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage.-a cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in england a lift; the cage or platform itself.-a building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.-a muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.-an instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.