Usually means: Device for lifting heavy stones.
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  1. Lewis, lewis: Merriam-Webster
  2. Lewis, lewis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lewis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lewis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Lewis: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lewis, lewis: Wordnik
  7. Lewis, lewis: Wiktionary
  8. lewis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lewis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lewis: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Lewis, lewis: Dictionary.com
  12. Lewis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Lewis (Surrey cricketer), Lewis (TV series), Lewis (disambiguation), Lewis (given name), Lewis (lifting appliance), Lewis (musician), Lewis (robot), Lewis (satellite), Lewis (surname), Lewis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Lewis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. Lewis: Rhymezone
  16. Lewis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Lewis: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  18. Lewis: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. lewis: FreeDictionary.org
  20. lewis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Lewis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Lewis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. The Lewis: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Lewis)

noun:  A male given name from Frankish.
noun:  An English surname originating as a patronymic.
noun:  The title given to a partially apprenticed Freemason who is normally the Master or Son of a practicing Freemason; one practising or learning the degrees of Freemasonry after introduction to the degrees and before full induction or before becoming a Worshipful Brother.
noun:  A locale in the United States:
noun:  A census-designated place in Montezuma County, Colorado.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Vigo County, Indiana.
noun:  A minor city in Cass County, Iowa.
noun:  A minor city in Edwards County, Kansas; named for journalist M. M. Lewis.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Henry County, Missouri; named for landowner Howell Lewis.
noun:  A town in Essex County, New York; named for Morgan Lewis, 3rd Governor of New York.
noun:  A town in Lewis County, New York; named for its county, itself for Morgan Lewis.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Granville County, North Carolina.
noun:  A town in Essex County, Vermont; named for landowners Nathan, Sevignior and Timothy Lewis.
noun:  A census-designated place in Clam Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin; named for founder Charles E. Lewis.
noun:  A ghost town in California.
noun:  A number of townships, listed under Lewis Township.
noun:  A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic].
noun:  A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].
noun:  A cramp iron inserted into a cavity in order to lift heavy stones; used as a symbol of strength in Freemasonry.
noun:  (by extension, figurative) The son of a Freemason, envisaged as assisting his father in heavy work or in old age.
noun:  A kind of shears used in cropping woollen cloth.
noun:  Ellipsis of Isle of Lewis; an island in Scotland, United Kingdom. [An island area, the larger northern part of Lewis and Harris, in the Outer Hebrides, Western Isles council area, Scotland.]

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