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Hoist

//hɔɪst// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any member of certain classes of devices that hoist things.
  2. 2
    lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of hoisting; a lift.

    "Give me a hoist over that wall."

  4. 4
    The triangular vertical position of a flag, as opposed to the flying state, or triangular vertical position of a sail, when flying from a mast.
  5. 5
    The position of a flag (on a mast) or of a sail on a ship when lifted up to its highest level.
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  1. 6
    The position of a main fore-and-aft topsail on a ship and fore fore-and-aft topsail on a ship.
Verb
  1. 1
    To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight). transitive

    "For tis the ſport to haue the enginer / Hoiſt with his ovvne petar, an't ſhall goe hard / But I vvill delue one yard belovve their mines, / And blovve them at the Moone: […]"

  2. 2
    raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help wordnet
  3. 3
    To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory. figuratively, often, transitive

    "And when skipper Richie McCaw hoisted the Webb Ellis Trophy high into the night, a quarter of a century of hurt was blown away in an explosion of fireworks and cheering."

  4. 4
    raise by using ropes and pulleys wordnet
  5. 5
    To lift someone up to be flogged. historical, transitive

    "Again Pilatus answered them, What shall I do to the Jew’s king? They again cried out and said, Hoist him! Then said Pilatus, What evil did he? They so much the more cried, Hoist him!"

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  1. 6
    move from one place to another by lifting wordnet
  2. 7
    To be lifted up. intransitive
  3. 8
    To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization. transitive
  4. 9
    To steal. slang, transitive

    "When you’ve reached neutral territory, when you’ve stashed the loot hoisted from the warlord’s mansion – well, he didn't have much use for it any more, did he?"

  5. 10
    To rob. slang, transitive

    "Why, it was nothing to travel about the country with fifty grand worth of ice on me. Suppose I hadn’t packed a roscoe—hell, I’d of been hoisted once a week!"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Alteration of earlier hoise (“to hoist”), apparently based on the past tense forms, from Middle Dutch hisen (“to hoist”). Compare modern Dutch hijsen (“to hoist”), German hissen (“to hoist”), Danish hejse (“to hoist”). Compare also French hisser (“to hoist”), Galician isar (“to hoist”), Spanish izar (“to hoist”), Catalan hissar (“to hoist”), Italian issare (“to hoist”), Portuguese içar (“to hoist”), Sicilian jisari (“to hoist”), all borrowed from a Germanic source.

Etymology 2

Alteration of earlier hoise (“to hoist”), apparently based on the past tense forms, from Middle Dutch hisen (“to hoist”). Compare modern Dutch hijsen (“to hoist”), German hissen (“to hoist”), Danish hejse (“to hoist”). Compare also French hisser (“to hoist”), Galician isar (“to hoist”), Spanish izar (“to hoist”), Catalan hissar (“to hoist”), Italian issare (“to hoist”), Portuguese içar (“to hoist”), Sicilian jisari (“to hoist”), all borrowed from a Germanic source.

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