Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EL'E-VA-TOR, n.

1. One who raises, lifts or exalts.
2. In anatomy, a muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the lip or the eye.
3. A surgical instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone. Coxe.
4. In milling, a series of boxes fastened to a strap, and moved by a wheel, to raise grain, meal, &c., to a higher floor.