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hoist
[ hoistor, sometimes, hahyst ]
verb (used with object)
- to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance:
to hoist a flag; to hoist the mainsail.
Synonyms: elevate
Antonyms: lower
- to raise to one's lips and drink; drink (especially beer or whiskey) with gusto:
Let's go hoist a few beers.
- Archaic. a simple past tense and past participle of hoise.
noun
- an apparatus for hoisting, as a block and tackle, a derrick, or a crane.
- act of hoisting; a lift:
Give that sofa a hoist at your end.
- Nautical.
- the vertical dimension amidships of any square sail that is hoisted with a yard. Compare drop ( def 31 ).
- the distance between the hoisted and the lowered position of such a yard.
- the dimension of a fore-and-aft sail along the luff.
- a number of flags raised together as a signal.
- (on a flag)
- the vertical dimension as flown from a vertical staff.
- the edge running next to the staff. Compare fly 2( def 30b ).
hoist
/ hɔɪst /
verb
- tr to raise or lift up, esp by mechanical means
- hoist with one's own petardSee petard
noun
- any apparatus or device for hoisting
- the act of hoisting
- nautical
- the amidships height of a sail bent to the yard with which it is hoisted Compare drop
- the difference between the set and lowered positions of this yard
- nautical the length of the luff of a fore-and-aft sail
- nautical a group of signal flags
- the inner edge of a flag next to the staff Compare fly 1
Derived Forms
- ˈhoister, noun
Other Words From
- hoister noun
- un·hoisted adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of hoist1
Idioms and Phrases
- hoist by / with one's own petard. petard ( def 4 ).
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Another opposition MP, Hong Keewon, said that protesters helped to hoist him over the wall.
No effort was made to hoist it.
As Malcolm Kerr noted almost 60 years ago in his book The Arab Cold War, these states championed Palestinians as a way to divert attention from their own domestic shortcomings and to hoist the blame for all their problems onto what they call “the Zionist entity.”
Kickers, a chance to hoist the trophy once again Wednesday.
The woman ultimately turns back toward the bridge to face them, and Bon Jovi and his partner help her hoist herself over the rail.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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