To discharge, to pay off.

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1846.  [Mr. W.] is less able to lift my paper now, than at any former time.—Oregon Spectator, April 30.

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1858.  I bent my back in lifting notes; and I do n’t know that it will ever come straight again!—Knick. Mag., lii. 216 (Aug.).

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1879.  The weather must lift the mortgage on his farm, and pay his taxes, and feed and clothe his family.—J. Burroughs, ‘Locusts and Wild Honey,’ p. 79. (N.E.D.)

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1884.  So then the spectral mortgage could never be lifted.—Stockton, ‘The Lady, or the Tiger?’ p. 47. (N.E.D.)

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