English

Verb

relift ‎(third-person singular simple present relifts, present participle relifting, simple past and past participle relifted)

1. To lift something again.

Adjective

relift ‎(not comparable)

1. (hydrolic engineering) Pertaining to a pumping system that raises the level of water that is flowing in a waterway.
   • 1962, ‎George A. Lineer, Report on Proposed Westplains Water Storage District:

     A relift pump would then raise the water to another concrete-lined canal on compacted fill.

   • 1985, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Lake Andes-Wagner Unit:

     The purpose of this wasteway is to provide for emergency waste in the canal in case of unscheduled shutdown of the relift pumping plant.

   • 1988, Umatilla Basin Project, Planning Report: Environmental Impact Statement:

     The proposed Stanfield canal, Stanfield relift pump, and Stanfield relift canal and siphon features were not surveyed at this time because they cross irrigated croplands.

   • 2004, Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science - Volume 58, page 28:

     Comparison of benefit/cost ratios of well and relift systems for tailwater recovery system in northeast Arkansas.