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bottle-jack

British  

noun

  1. a large jack used for heavy lifts

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Spit the beef firmly, or, if a bottle-jack is used, put the joint on the hook, and place it near a nice clear fire.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

The joint is fixed to an iron hook, which is suspended by a chain connected with a wheel, and which, in its turn, is connected with the bottle-jack.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

But really I do object to be swinging there at the end of a string like a confounded leg of mutton under a bottle-jack.

From Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle by Forestier, A.

Then you’ll sit in a loop, and we shall haul you up, while you spin round like a roast fowl on a hook, and the bottle-jack up above going click.”

From Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai by Fenn, George Manville

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