lifter

plural lifters

1. Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
   1. hobbiesA weightlifter.

      heavy lifters

      2 more examples

      While some lifters insist that supersets must consist of consecutive exercises for the same bodypart, others would bet their weight belts that supersets involve opposing bodyparts.

      2010, Eric Velazquez, “Power Pairings”, in Reps!, 17:83

      John notes that 20th-century lifters didn't have squat racks or bench press stations—they couldn't even adjust the load of their barbells.

      2026, Greg Presto, “Timeless Gains”, in Men's Health, volume 41, number 2, page 14

   2. A tappet.

      solid lifters

      1 more example

      hydraulic lifters

   3. ball gamesA delivery that bounces well off the pitch.

      When he dismissed Keith Miller, caught at short leg off a lifter, I turned round to Tony Lock[.]

      1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 148

   4. A spatula.
   5. A thief.

      an inveterate lifter

      1 more example

      Is he so young a man, and so old a lifter?

      c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act 1, scene 2, line 118

      Synonyms: abstractor, appropriator, bagger, booster, borrower, cribber, faker, filcher

   6. An ionocraft.

plural lifters

1. computingA filter that operates on a cepstrum.