'Lowering' in the Bible

"Drink, my lord," she replied, and quickly lowering her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink.

But his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening in the wall by lowering him in a basket.

Then when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and were lowering the ship's boat into the sea, pretending that they were going to put out anchors from the bow,