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hoist
[ hoistor, sometimes, hahyst ]
verb (used with object)
- to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance:
to hoist a flag; to hoist the mainsail.
Synonyms: elevate
Antonyms: lower
- to raise to one's lips and drink; drink (especially beer or whiskey) with gusto:
Let's go hoist a few beers.
- Archaic. a simple past tense and past participle of hoise.
noun
- an apparatus for hoisting, as a block and tackle, a derrick, or a crane.
- act of hoisting; a lift:
Give that sofa a hoist at your end.
- Nautical.
- the vertical dimension amidships of any square sail that is hoisted with a yard. Compare drop ( def 31 ).
- the distance between the hoisted and the lowered position of such a yard.
- the dimension of a fore-and-aft sail along the luff.
- a number of flags raised together as a signal.
- (on a flag)
- the vertical dimension as flown from a vertical staff.
- the edge running next to the staff. Compare fly 2( def 30b ).
hoist
/ hɔɪst /
noun
- any apparatus or device for hoisting
- the act of hoisting
- nautical
- the amidships height of a sail bent to the yard with which it is hoisted Compare drop
- the difference between the set and lowered positions of this yard
- nautical the length of the luff of a fore-and-aft sail
- nautical a group of signal flags
- the inner edge of a flag next to the staff Compare fly 1
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Derived Forms
- ˈhoister, noun
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Other Words From
- hoister noun
- un·hoisted adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hoist1
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Idioms and Phrases
- hoist by / with one's own petard. petard ( def 4 ).
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Example Sentences
We happily hoist our egg nog in the air, embrace each other, and raise our out-of-tune voices in song.
Hoist that big historical asterisk skyward and place it next to his name.
Carter scurried back to Mace and reached down to hoist him up.
But a significant number of your fellow citizens have a very different vision as they hoist the flag.
But the regime's canons push them back before they can hoist their flag over the liberated barracks.
The slings were affixed, the order to hoist was given by the mate, who had descended from the poop, and stood near the gangway.
If with the Vice-Admiral he will hoist a white flag at the end of the gaff or derrick, and fire two guns.
Harvey, without further notice of his companion, proceeded to hoist the sail a little so that he could take two reefs in it.
I will make a windlass as soon as I can, and we will soon hoist out another, like they turn a bucket of water up from a well.
I know 'em all, for I took care of their hall,—their armory,—and they made me hoist the flag one day union down.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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