lewis

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A dovetailed iron tenon made of several parts and designed to fit into a dovetail mortise in a large stone so that it can be lifted by a hoisting apparatus.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A contrivance for securing a hold on a block of stone in order that it may be raised from its position by a derrick.
• noun A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc.
• noun A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth.
• noun a hole wider at the bottom than at the mouth, into which a lewis is fitted.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A cramp iron inserted into a cavity in order to lift heavy stones; used as a symbol of strength in Freemasonry

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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