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

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 Hartley, John

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

It meant, too, that this line had been connected with the line they had brought with them from the island, its far end being around the drum of our hoister.

From The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women by Smith, Francis Hopkinson

Anyhow, I'm glad dey didn't put no hoister nor damper-getter wit' me.

From The Big-Town Round-Up by Raine, William MacLeod