lifting

For some moments he stood there contemplating the little fellows as they went about their work in their business-like way, taking no notice of his presence other than the liftings of their heads now and then, as if to ascertain if he were still there.

When I started lifting in 1970, I was the skinniest thirteen-year-old I knew.

It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.