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Definition of Deadlift
1. Noun. (weightlifting) A weight training exercise where one lifts a loaded barbell off the ground from a stabilized bent-over position. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To lift a barbell while moving the body from a bent-over position to a standing position. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deadlift
1. to execute a type of lift in weight lifting [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deadlift
Literary usage of Deadlift
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1908)
"With 'Permanent-Session of twenty-four hours,' with vote by rollcall, and a
deadlift effort, the Gironde carries it: Marat is ordered to the Revolutionary ..."
2. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1838)
"In such manner, with a deadlift effort, Salut, Tinville Herman, Leroi Dix-Aout,
and all stanch jurymen setting heart and shoulder to it, the Jury becomes ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1896)
"With ' Permanent-Session of twenty-four hours,1 with vote by roll-call, and a
deadlift effort, the Gironde carries it: Marat is ordered to the Revolutionary ..."
4. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1885)
"... case of regeneration there is an original intervention of God to give the soul
a deadlift over a chasm which it has not in itself the power to surmount. ..."
5. Essays on Questions of the Day, Political and Social by Goldwin Smith (1893)
"deadlift efforts may be made to cultivate national spirit in dependencies.
Like all efforts to cultivate artificial sentiment, they will be made in vain. ..."
6. An Introductory History of England by Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher (1908)
"The sort of deadlift which was made not many years ago to glorify Wolsey as the
greatest of European statesmen is one of the most curious phenomena in the ..."
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