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Hoist   /hɔɪst/   Listen
noun
Hoist  n.  
1.
That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.
2.
The act of hoisting; a lift. (Colloq.)
3.
(Naut.)
(a)
The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff.
(b)
The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.
Hoist bridge, a drawbridge that is lifted instead of being swung or drawn aside.


verb
Hoist  v. t.  (past & past part. hoisted; pres. part. hoisting)  To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight. "They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails." "Hoisting him into his father's throne."
Hoisting engine, a steam engine for operating a hoist.


Hoist  past part.  Hoisted. (Obs.) "'T is the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar."





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"Hoist" Quotes from Famous Books



... said. "They must be seven or eight miles away, and I may not be able to find them. They may have moved away to some other part of the forest. Ah! I have an idea! Suppose I cut a pole, tie the wolf's legs together and put the pole through them; then we can hoist the pole up and lash its ends behind the two saddles. The horses may not mind so much if it's not put upon ...
— In the Reign of Terror - The Adventures of a Westminster Boy • G. A. Henty
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... at Brest had again become formidable. Earl St. Vincent was appointed to command the Channel fleet, and immediately applied for Sir James to be second in command. To make him eligible for this, he was promoted to the rank of Vice-admiral; and on the 7th of January he received orders to hoist his flag, blue at the fore, on board the San Josef, of 112 guns. As the noble Earl was unable from ill health to keep the sea in the Hibernia, his flag-ship, the whole responsibility fell on ...
— Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II • Sir John Ross
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... came next day. Nils and I had talked over whether to hoist the flag; I dared not myself, but Nils was less cautious, and said we must. So there it was, flapping broad and free from ...
— Wanderers • Knut Hamsun
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... him, and indisposed to commit himself irretrievably in the House of Lords. After a long discussion I succeeded in persuading them that the danger is imminent, that there is no other chance of avoiding it, and they agreed to hoist their standard, get what followers they can, and declare in the House for the second reading without loss of time. Harrowby said of himself that he was the worst person in the world to conciliate and be civil, which is true enough, but he has a high reputation, and his opinion ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II • Charles C. F. Greville
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... force. I heard it crash through the cucumber frame. That makes the seventh pane of glass broken in that cucumber frame this week. The couple in the branch above are the worst. Their plan of building is the most extravagant, the most absurd I ever heard of. They hoist up ten times as much material as they can possibly use; you might think they were going to build a block, and let it out in flats to the other rooks. Then what they don't want they fling down again. Suppose ...
— The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow • Jerome K. Jerome
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