1. Synonyms for Craning include raising, lifting, hoisting, heaving, elevating, upraising, uplifting, hefting, hiking and heightening

2. Hefting a large, heavy pair of cable-cutters that had lain on a shelf, she let the first two go by.

3. Clambering through serpentine networks of tubing or hefting colossal inflatable globes, they might be the subjects of some mysterious test administered by unseen researchers of dubious intent.