[ UK /hˈɔ‍ɪst/ ]
[ US /ˈhɔɪst/ ]
VERB
  1. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
    hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car
  2. move from one place to another by lifting
    They hoisted the patient onto the operating table
  3. raise
    hoist the flags
    hoist a sail
NOUN
  1. lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects
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How To Use hoist In A Sentence

  • Oman: three horizontal bands of white, red, and green of equal width with a broad, vertical, red band on the hoist side; the national emblem (a khanjar dagger in its sheath superimposed on two crossed swords in scabbards) in white is centered at the top of the vertical band The 2001 CIA World Factbook
  • They moved through the forest only at night, and silen AWenger carrying the girl over the roughest parts to save I feet, allowing no one else to hoist her up. Briar Rose
  • Perhaps the biggest problem on top was making signals to the engineers in the yard below to prevent overwinding of the hoisting engines. The Great Bridge
  • The intruder was a big man, his face glistening with the effort of hoisting himself up. The Bullet Catchers
  • Should the English hoist their flag here, a new factory must be erected; the most eligible situation for which would be where the mosk now stands, or the mosk itself might be converted into one, and another rebuilt elsewhere; but to this the sultan has insuperable objections. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
  • The movers will move it, and I could care less how they go about hoisting it out of the room and onto their truck.
  • JTP computer-controlled intelligent hoister is the construcion equipment specially designed for vertical transport of materials for construction and installation.
  • We still don't know for certain who took them, nor have I been able to find dateable pictures of Salts chimney with a hoist at the side to find out if Levi Firth could have been the photographer.
  • Sarah was just about to mount onto one when Fin without so much as a by-your-leave hoisted her up into the saddle and the tied her horse to his.
  • Just four weeks before the start of the festival 25 volunteers hoisted the arch into place using ropes.
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