hoist

Plural: hoists

Noun

• lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects
• Any member of certain classes of devices that hoist things.
• The act of hoisting; a lift.
• 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.
• The position of a flag (on a mast) or of a sail on a ship when lifted up to its highest level.
• The position of a main fore-and-aft topsail on a ship and fore fore-and-aft topsail on a ship.

Verb

Verb Forms: hoisted, hoisting, hoists

• To raise or lift something, often using mechanical means.
• raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
  • "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
• move from one place to another by lifting
  • "They hoisted the patient onto the operating table"
• raise
  • "hoist the flags"
  • "hoist a sail"
• 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).
• To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.
• To lift someone up to be flogged.
• To be lifted up.
• To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
• To steal.
• To rob.

Examples

• Give me a hoist over that wall.
• He planned to HOIST his score with a seven-letter word on the triple-word score.

Synonyms

lift, run up, wind

Anagrams of hoist