LekhoriLekhoriTo raise or rise.
The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear.
To steal.
Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side, And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride.
To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
Based on a similarity across a range of Anglo-Indian entries in these three dictionaries, it appears that (along with other lexis) Barrère and Leland (1898) copied this entry from Hotten (1864), who had in turn lifted it directly from Stocqueler (1848).
An act of lifting or raising.
The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
He gave me a lift to the bus station.
From Middle English liften, lyften, from Old Norse lypta (“to lift, air”, literally “to raise in the air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftijaną (“to raise in the air”), related to *luftuz (“roof, air”), pe...
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Air.