mortgage lifter

Noun

mortgage lifter (plural mortgage lifters)

1. Synonym of mortgage burner. Also used as a cultivar name and as a name for sires and dams in livestock breeding.
   • This being a stock breeders' convention, we think it proper to discuss this question from a live stock or farmers' standpoint, and believing it will apply to a large section of farming country outside of Iowa, yet it must not be supposed to suit every section of the United States any more than the...1891, W. W. M'Clung, “The mortgage lifter”, in Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Improved Stock-Breeders' Association, Iowa State Improved Stock-Breeders' Association, pages 62-63
   • Someone sometime and somewhere applied to the American hog the cognomen "mortgage lifter." Was there a good reason for giving the hog such a name, and if so, why? These are certainly questions of interest to every farmer […] The question as to whether there was a good reason for giving the hog such...1913 January 4, “Why the "mortgage lifter?"”, in The Michigan Farmer, volume 140, number 1, page 6

   Synonyms:

   mortgage burner