hoist
verb (used with object)
to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance.
hoister
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a word derived from
hoist.
Example Sentences
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“I don’t know,” said Goodrow, the only skater in the Rangers lineup who has won a Stanley Cup; backup goalie Jonathan Quick is a three-time Cup hoister, including last season with Vegas.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
While McCloskey was still prophesying failure, he was giving the word to Darby, the hoister engineer.
From The Taming of Red Butte Western by Francis Lynde
Nah he'd nivver tasted a hoister i' all his life, it wor summat new, soa he went up to th' chap an axt for one.
From Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect by John Hartley
Out on the wharf a double "hoister," working by steam, and able to pick up and swing a hundred tons, is used in handling the materials of the works.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various
Her sails were furled, her boom swinging loose and ready, the smoke from her hoister curling from the end of her smoke pipe thrust up out of the forward hatch.
From The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women by Francis Hopkinson Smith
