Crossword clues for hoist
hoist
- Haul up
- Get up
- Lifting device
- Lift with effort
- Jack up, e.g
- Send up a flagpole
- Pull up with a pulley
- Jack, e.g
- Get high
- Raise, as an anchor
- Block and tackle, e.g
- Raise with a crane
- Lifting part of a crane
- Do some heavy lifting
- Raise, as with a crane
- Raise, as a sail
- Lift with a crane
- Run up the flagpole
- Jack (up)
- Derricks do it
- Crane part
- Apparatus for lifting
- Verb in the song "Sloop John B"
- Use a pulley to lift
- Send up, as a flag
- Raise with ropes and pulleys
- Raise on a pole
- Raise as a flag
- Phish "Down With Disease" album
- Lift(ing device)
- Lift with a block and tackle
- Lift up high
- Jack, say
- Goods elevator
- Enable to reach higher
- Derrick or crane
- An elevator
- Lift up, as a flag
- Loading apparatus
- Raise, as a flag
- Crane, e.g
- Dumbwaiter, essentially
- Davit or crane
- Use a block and tackle on
- Jack, e.g.
- Bring up
- Jack or forklift
- Raise, as Old Glory
- Give a lift
- Lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects
- Raise a flag
- Raise aloft
- Raise Old Glory
- Tugger
- Elevate
- Use a block and tackle, e.g
- Pick up and drink: Slang
- Uplift
- Jack's relative
- Lift weights
- ___ by one's own petard
- Signal flags, at sea
- Elevate one among many
- Lifting tackle
- Lifting equipment
- Lifting apparatus
- Lift, tho’, is out of order
- Raise up
- Raise one in army
- Raise first person among many
- Island swallowed by tropical uplift
- Is stuck in very warm lift
- Jack's first person to be recruited by army
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hoist \Hoist\, p. p. Hoisted. [Obs.]
'T is the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar.
--Shak.
Hoist \Hoist\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hoisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoisting.] [OE. hoise, hyse, OD. hyssen, D. hijshen; akin to LG. hissen, Dan. hisse, Sw. hiss
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] 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.
--Pope.Hoisting him into his father's throne.
--South.Hoisting engine, a steam engine for operating a hoist.
Hoist \Hoist\, n.
That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.
The act of hoisting; a lift. [Colloq.]
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(Naut.)
The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff.
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The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.
--Totten.Hoist bridge, a drawbridge that is lifted instead of being swung or drawn aside.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "to raise," earlier hoise (c.1500), probably originally past tense of Middle English hysse (late 15c.), which is probably from Middle Dutch hyssen (Dutch hijsen) "to hoist," related to Low German hissen and Old Norse hissa upp "raise." A nautical word found in most European languages (French hisser, Italian issare, Spanish izar), but it is uncertain which had it first. Related: Hoisted; hoisting. In phrase hoist with one's own petard, it is the past participle.\n\nFor 'tis the sport, to have the engineer\n
Hoist with his own petar: and it shall go hard\n
But I will delve one yard below their mines,\n
And blow them at the moon: O 'tis most sweet,\n
When in one line two crafts directly meet.\n
["Hamlet," Act III, Scene iv]
\nMeaning "to lift and remove" was prevalent c.1550-1750. As a noun, 1650s, from the verb.Wiktionary
n. 1 A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane. 2 The act of hoisting; a lift. 3 The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff. 4 The vertical edge of a flag which is next to the staff. 5 The height of a fore-and-aft sail, next the mast or stay. vb. (context transitive English) To raise; to lift; to elevate; especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight.
WordNet
n. lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects
v. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car" [syn: lift, wind]
move from one place to another by lifting; "They hoisted the patient onto the operating table"
raise; "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail" [syn: run up]
Wikipedia
Hoist is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers franchise.
A hoist is a device used for lifting or lowering a load by means of a drum or lift-wheel around which rope or chain wraps. It may be manually operated, electrically or pneumatically driven and may use chain, fiber or wire rope as its lifting medium. The load is attached to the hoist by means of a lifting hook.
A hoist motion is used in Canadian legislative bodies to cause a bill not to be read now, but six months hence, or any number of months hence. In the House of Commons, if a hoist motion is adopted, it has the effect of defeating the bill.
In underground mining a hoist or winder is used to raise and lower conveyances within the mine shaft. Modern hoists are normally powered using electric motors, historically with direct current drives utilizing Ward Leonard control machines and later solid-state converters ( thyristors), however modern large hoists use alternating current drives that are variable frequency controlled. There are three principal types of hoists used in mining applications:
Hoist may refer to:
- Hoist, When subcontractors are to use any means deemed necessary to load/unload material on to an existing building or a building under construction, this is an act of hoisting
- Hoist (device), a machine for lifting loads
- Hoist controller, a machine for raising and lowering goods or personnel by means of a cable
- Hydraulic hooklift hoist, another machine
- Hoist (mining), another machine
- Hoist (flag), the half of a flag nearer to the flagpole
- Hoist (album), by Phish
- Hoist (Transformers), a toy and fictional character
- USS Hoist (ARS-40), a Bolster class rescue and salvage ship acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II
- Hoist (motion), a parliamentary procedure used in Canadian legislative bodies
- Patient lift, for lifting people
- Outliner, filter for viewing
Hoist (stylized as (Hoist)) is the fifth official studio album by the American rock band Phish, released on March 29, 1994, by Elektra Records. At the time of its release, Hoist was Phish's best selling album to date, peaking at #34 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
The band suggested a few ideas for the album's title before finally settling on Hoist; one of the alternative suggestions was Hung Like a Horse. The band ruled this out, but decided to keep the visual joke intact for the album's cover. The horse is also a reference to "The Horse," the only song not visually depicted on the cover of Rift, the band's previous album.
Hoist features guest appearances from Alison Krauss, Béla Fleck and a host of other musicians, as well as actor Jonathan Frakes on trombone. With its jazz, blues, soul and bluegrass influences, the album is marked by more stripped-down, straightforward songwriting and pop-friendly hooks, a somewhat new approach for Phish.
However, the album's final track, "Demand", segues into an extended instrumental excerpt from the April 21, 1993, live performance of the song "Split Open and Melt", followed by the first verse and refrain of the Hebrew song " Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (Jerusalem of Gold)."
"Riker's Mailbox" is a brief interlude track on the album, and the only "song" on the album to have never been performed live by the band. Album producer Paul Fox lived next to Jonathan Frakes, whose mailbox is apparently uniquely decorated. Frakes, who played Commander Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation, sat in for a while during the Hoist sessions, giving his name to the track.
On June 26, 1994, the band performed the entire Hoist album (minus "Riker's Mailbox") verbatim as the second set of their live show in Charleston, West Virginia. This move was a subversion of Phish's usual improvisationally driven performances, and later inspired the band's tradition of donning a musical costume for Halloween.
The band released a music video for " Down with Disease", directed by bass guitarist Mike Gordon.
The album was certified gold by the RIAA August 19, 1996.
In February 2009, this album became available as a download in FLAC and MP3 formats at LivePhish.com.
Usage examples of "hoist".
At the same time the phone talker hoisted a large American flag on a temporary flagpole aft of the flying bridge, the wind from the north flapping the fabric.
He fastened the tails of the albacore together, hoisted the burden of more than two hundredweight to one shoulder, and led the way up the steep path.
His sudden twist hoisted Alker across the desk, to the far side, where the man dived hard to the floor, throwing his left hand ahead of him.
All that I can remember is, that on every ascensional motion, we were hoisted up with ever increasing velocity, as if we had been launched from a huge projectile.
The workmen, grimy with the black ashy soot of the tunnels and pits of the ruined house, groaned with effort as they hoisted the heavy crate up onto the table and let it fall with a massive thump.
The moment he cast anchor, the bailo hoisted his flag of captain-general of the Venetian navy, and the proveditore hauled down his own colours.
Hence, if we are mining it further away, we will be collecting the bauxite with pickaxe and shovel, carrying it out of the mine by wheelbarrow, hoist, or mine car, and shipping it to the processing plant by pack mule, wagon, barge or ship.
I do not pretend to hoist up the Bibliotheca Anatomica of Mangetus and spread it on my table every day.
He also kept his command well caulked, and saw the chocks and skids secure when his boat was hoisted to the deck.
Jonathan could now make out tousled clumps of trees roundabout him hoisting up out of the water like little clusters of vegetables clamped into an asparagus cooker.
He hoisted himself onto the cutwater, and by the bowsprit arrived at the forecastle.
Divil in my patten if I would not go back to Donnybrook and Dublin, hoist the Orange cockade, and become as good an Orange boy as ever.
Billy climbed aboard, and he and Durant hoisted the yawl-boat on her davits.
There were jewelled stars and enamelled crosses worn on sashes of brilliant silk, and all lit by the glittering chandeliers which had been hoisted to the ceiling with their burdens of fine white candles.
In order to keep the High-Binders and the Epworth Leaguers both on his Staff at one and the same time, he had to be some Equilibrist, so he never hoisted a Slug except in his own Office, where he kept it behind the Supreme Court Reports.