What is "hoick"

Usage examples of "hoick".

The other arm slammed him alongside the neck, and he had to hoick his head to the left to keep his windpipe from being shredded.

And when Christian had taken Count von Hoick to be his constant companion, day and night, appointing him Marshal of the Court so that he could be in constant attendance, she had felt outraged.

If he sent Struensee but of course if he met von Hoick on the way from her apartments he would probably forget all about her and her need for a doctor -that man would find another doctor attending her.

Let him have friends like the Count von Hoick, but she should live on amicable terms with him.

Overseers would attend the harvest with large carts, prong the tenth turnip, hoick up the tenth sheaf of wheat, bucket out the tenth gallon of ale, and so forth.

Not noticeably Twinkie-like, but hey, enders hoick themselves into some odd mental configurations.

Candlemas was hoicked into the air, pulled in five directions as if by wild horses, and spun wildly.

A great hand came down, caught the front of his tattered goatskin vest, hoicked, and slammed him to his feet.

Lady Polaris walked parallel as the flayed mage was hoicked off her naked buttocks and dragged along the floor, wailing in agony.

George, a big lanky character in a cotton suit that left his wrists and big hands exposed, hoicked me out of the chair, and pushed me through the door, across the front room, and out on to the wide strip of dried up ground that separated the main carriage way from the police post.

He hoicked Jemmy up onto his shoulder like a bundle of laundry and squatted down, poking at the ground in search of the watch chain, which Jemmy had evidently hurled into the darkness.

She bent to retrieve her offspring, who had been hanging over the edge of the wharf, peacefully exploring its underside, and hoicked him up onto one hip.

The girl was businesslike in the way she stepped astride her victim, hoicking at her skirt and squatting on his chest.

He got out the holy picture the little girl Bridget had sent him, of a poofter angel hoicking a kid in a nightie back from a cliff edge, and said a Hail Mary.

Hamiska and prodded it vigorously into the earth around the lump, not bothering to use the brush, hoicking chunks of clay out.