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lewis

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun lewis has 6 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

lewisn. 
  •  An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth.  [1913 Webster]
Lewis hole, a hole wider at the bottom than at the mouth, into which a lewis is fitted. De Foe.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lewis, n. an iron contrivance for gripping heavy blocks of stone or concrete for lifting.

Etymology
18th c.: orig. unkn.
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