What is "hoisting"

Usage examples of "hoisting".

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.

Hoisting himself, as it were, on a mounting billow of his own profanity, Loge cast himself with a wide swimming motion of his arms from the auto.

She paused to watch an old Malay fisherman unload silvery barramundi, thread them along an oar and, hoisting it to one shoulder, lift a bucket of cockle oysters and set off for town.

She cast a lazy look at them, eyes hoisting pennyweights of pancake and false lash.

A bit of hoisting here, a bit of burglary there, gravitating as the years went on to other kinds of illegal activities to keep them all clothed and fed, a roof over their heads, the tallyman off the doorstep, and a few bob for his poor mum to go out and have a good time.

It looked as if the triceratops had gored the person, hoisting him into the air.

Quite unalarmed, he smiled, hoisting his shoe in triumph to display the blot of foil gilding the sole.

The heavers forward now resume their song, and while the one tackle is peeling and hoisting a second strip from the whale, the other is slowly slackened away, and down goes the first strip through the main hatchway right beneath, into an unfurnished parlor called the blubber-room.

Acting almost instinctively, Adler sprang forward, grabbing the civilian woman by the waist and hoisting her in front of himself as a shield.

Hoisting Engines, Chiropody, Loans, Pulleys, Boas Renovated, Waltz Guaranteed in Five Lessons, or Artificial Limbs.

Then they drifted back into sleep or semisleep while at the field itself there was time for neither imagining nor sleep in the shoving and hoisting of bombs and torpedoes and the stiff coiling of belted bullets in then- cans, the gassing, the oiling, the changing of damaged parts, in the noise of engines and blown dust and the sharp smell of high-octane fuel.

Then, hoisting it upward, Helen transformed the bandanna into a blindfold, through whose misaligned threads she disingenuously peered at herself.

When they were placed on board a large trading dhow to be carried across the Nile to Omdurman, she went on board with them, and when one of the crew questioned her presence Ali Wad snarled at him so belligerently that he scurried away to attend to the hoisting of the lateen sail.

Hardy Paphlagonians, working over him, hoisting him onto a chariot, bore him back to the sacred walls of Troy .

Hoisting it with a heave of his strong shoulders, Doug swung the cot toward the spot where he expected Perique would be - and was.