Chilaili was a godsend, lifting heavy slabs it would've taken three or four men to shift.

We've lifted slabs in that wretched camp - we've lifted some here - and we still don't know if we're anywhere near the right one.

Cranes carefully lifted huge slabs of concrete and steel girders, while rescue workers wedged boards under holes in the debris to search for victims.

In the flickering light of torches, long lines of naked and sweating men struggled with block and tackle to lift massive slabs of marble into position.

When water seeps beneath the sidewalk slab and saturates the ground, the expansion of that trapped water during a freezing cycle can lift even heavy slabs of masonry several inches.

This method - the Youtz-Slick "lift-slab" method - lifted reinforced concrete slabs onto columns with hydraulic jacks.

They are successful bottom-feeding hunters, and have been observed (as a species) lifting slabs of rock in search of prey.

But within an hour, the Israeli team had taken command and switched strategies, using three cranes to lift huge slabs of flooring off from above and clearing rubble with human chains.

They lifted 50-pound slabs of curd to put them through a harp, a large cheesemaking tool made of stainless steel and monofilament that dices the slabs into cubes.

Heavy cranes lifted slabs of concrete from the site.