LEWIS


Meaning of LEWIS in English

/looh"is/ , n.

a device for lifting a dressed stone, consisting of a number of pieces fitting together to fill a dovetailed recess cut into the stone.

[ 1730-40; perh. after the surname of the inventor ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .