Hoist

Definition: Hoist

Hoist

Noun

1. Lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects.

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, as of flags or sails.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hoist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Hoist \Hoist\, past participle Hoisted. [Obsolete]. (references)

Physics

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Hoist

Departure

Leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye; Noun: disappear; abscond; (avoid); entrain; inspan.

Elevation

Verb: heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear, upcast, uphoist, upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal.

Failure

Stultified, befooled, dished, hoist on one's own petard; victimized, sacrificed.

Indication

Wave a banner, unfurl a banner, hoist a banner, hang out a banner; Noun: wave the hand, wave a kerchief; give the cue; (inform); show one's colors; give an alarm, sound an alarm; beat the drum, sound the trumpets, raise a cry.

Retaliation

Serve one right, be hoist on one's own petard, throw a stone in one's own garden, catch a Tartar.

Warfare

Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with.

Crosswords: Hoist

Introduction to VDS Equipment AN/SQS-504 and Transducer Group Hoist AN/SQA-501 (1963)

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References

• Hoist International AB: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Hoist Your Sails & Run (reference)

• Phish: Hoist (reference)

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Music

• Hoist (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Racor PBH-1 Pro Stor Bicycle Hoist Monster (reference)

• Tie Down Engineering LH-400 TranzSporter 26-1/2' 400 lb Hoist with 3-1/2 Horsepower Briggs (reference)

• Massadam 144S-6 1-Ton Hoist (reference)

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AML. Hoist at Kaaba-Texas Mine, Spokane District, Washington. Credit: John Craig.

Loading cross ties with Brown hoist on yard, Lamb-Fish Lumber Co., Charleston, Miss. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fueling lighter with clam shell hoist, Ashtabula, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress.

Part of air compressor at Ellison Hoist, Lead Homestake Mine. Credit: Library of Congress.

Brown electric hoist unloading freighter Constitution, Cleveland, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress.

Brown hoist machine, Cleveland, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress.

Getting ready to hoist a mounted gun, in Washington Navy Yard(?). Credit: Library of Congress.

Old log hoist in abandoned lumber camp. Gemmel, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sheep being unloaded by hoist off steamer. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. Marines - first to hoist Old Glory on foreign soil Join them for overseas duty / / Sidney H. Riesenberg 1913. Credit: Library of Congress.

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With these words he moved away, and began giving orders to the men, who were preparing to hoist the jib.

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Business

Sole national agents are required for specified products only, mainly certain types of heavy equipment such as road rollers, hoist and lifting equipment, tractors, and cement-mixing machines, motorcycles, cars and trucks. (references)

Economic History

Qatar

Flag: Maroon with white serrated band (nine white points) on the hoist side. (references)

Cape Verde

A circle of 10 yellow five-pointed stars is centered on the hoist end of the red stripe and extends into the upper and lower blue bands. (references)

Sao Tome and Principe

Flag: Three horizontal bands of green (top), yellow (double-width), and green (bottom), with two black, five-pointed stars placed side-by-side in the center of the yellow band, and a red isoceles triangle based on the hoist side. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "hoist": be hoist on one's own petard ♦ be hoist with one's own petard ♦ chain hoist ♦ Furnace hoist ♦ give a hoist ♦ hoist a flag ♦ hoist anchor ♦ Hoist bridge ♦ hoist in ♦ hoist travelling trolly ♦ hoist up ♦ hoist with a winch ♦ hoist with one's own petard ♦ log hoist. Additional references.

Beginning with "hoist": hoist-bridge.

Ending with "hoist": air-hoist.

Albanian

sinjal me flamur, parangë, pajisje ngritëse, ngritje (advance, ascension, boosting, building, cultivation, elevation, erection, flow, increase, jump, lifting up, progress, projection, prominence, prominency, putting up, raise, rise, rising, setting up, take off, uprise, upswing, uptake), ngre lart, ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hitch, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up), ashensor për ngarkesa, çikrik (bobbin, crab, drum, reel, spinning wheel, spool, winch, windlass). (various references)

Arabic 

‏الة الرفع, ‏رفع العلم, ‏رفع بالرافعة, ‏رفع (boost, brace, bring to his feet, bring up, cat, crane, dismiss, elevate, elevation, exalt, expand, fork out, heave, heighten, hike, hold up, inflate, jack, lever, leverage, lift, lifting, mount, pick, pick me up, pick up, promote, purchase, push up, put up with smth., raise, rear, rise, rising, rode, roll up, scroll, send up, set up, sling, take up, thrust, turn up, up-end, upheave, uphold, uplift), ‏رافعة (derrick, jack, lever, lift, rig, whip, winch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вдигане (flush, heaving, lift), вдигам (carry away, carry off, elevate, flush, get up, heave, heft, hold up, kick up, lift, pick up, pull up, purchase, put up, raise, rear, rouse, run up, take up, tip up, up), асансьор (elevator, lift), лебедка (gig, gin, winch), лифт (lift, ski lift), подемник (elevator, gig), изкачване (ascension, ascent, climb, climbing, rise), изкачвам (remount, scale, walk up), издигане (advance, aggrandizement, ascension, ascent, elevation, erection, heave, levitation, lift, lifting, rise, rising, uptake). (various references)

Chinese 

升起 (raise), 卷扬机. (various references)

Czech

zvednutí (lift), zvednout (elevate, heave, hold up, improve, lift, pick up, pick(up), put up, raise, rise, take up), zvedací zařízení, zdvihnout (heave, improve, raise, take up, unmoor, upheave, upraise), zdvihák (Jack, lifter), zdviž (elevator), vztyèit (hold up, raise, set up), vytáhnout (extract, pull out, pull up, raise, stretch), kladkostroj (tackle). (various references)

Danish

hoist, hejseværk, hejsebuk (loading tripod), hejseapparat, hejs, talje (thallium, waist, waistline), kaedetransportoer (jack ladder, jack slip, jack works, log chain, log chute, log haul, log haul-up, log hoist, log jack, log slip, log-way), flasketraek (chain block, chain hoist, pulley tackle), elevator (elevator, lift). (various references)

Dutch

hijsen (bouse, bowse, bowse down, lift), hijsen (hoist up, run up), hýsen (hoist up, run up, wind up), takel (block and fall, chain block, chain hoist, pulley tackle, purchase, rigging of blocks, tackle), ophijsen, ophijsen (hoist up, run up), ophýsen (hoist up, run up, wind up), lift (elevator, lift), kraan met trekkabels,kabeltrommels en katrolblokken (loading tripod), goederentakel, goederenlift. (various references)

Esperanto

hisi (hoist up, run up, wind up), tirlevi (hoist up). (various references)

Faeroese

heysa (hoist up, run up, wind up). (various references)

Farsi 

مقدارکشش , عمل کشیدن (Revulsion), عمل بالابردن , بلندکردن (Enhance, Ennoble, Enthrone, Exalt, Heave, Heighten, Lift, Loft, Pedestal, Rear, Remove, Upraise), بالابردن (Amplify, Ante, Elate, Enhance, Enthrone, Heighten, Raise, Sublimate, Upgrade, Uplift, Upraise, Uprear), برافراشتن (Raise). (various references)

Finnish

hissi (elevator, lift), tukkirata (jack ladder, jack slip, jack works, log chain, log chute, log haul, log haul-up, log hoist, log jack, log slip, log-way), talja (block, fleece, fur, hide, pelt, skin), nostolaite (crane, loading tripod), nostokone (loading tripod), nostin, nostaa (draw, lever, lift, pick up, raise, take up). (various references)

French

treuil, hisser. (various references)

German

hissen (fly, haul up, hoist up, put up, run up, to hoist, wind up), lastenaufzug (goods elevator, goods lift, service elevator), hochziehen (hike up, hitch up, hunch up, lift up, pull up, raise, run up, through up, to hoist), hebezeug (breast derrick, capstan, crane, loading tripod), flaschenzug (pulley), aufzug (act, cage, elevator, get up, lift, parade, procession, pull up, wind on). (various references)

Greek 

παλάγκο (purchase), πολύσπαστο (chain block, chain hoist, pulley tackle), υψώνω (elevate, heighten, hoik, lift, raise, rear, up, upraise), ανυψωτήρασ (elevator), ανυψωτήρας (elevator, lever), ανυψωτήρ (lift, tackle), ανελκυστήρας (elevator, lift, passenger elevator, passenger lift), αναβατόριο (hydraulic lift, lift, power lift), αναβατήρας εμπορευμάτων. (various references)

Hebrew 

מתקן �"רמ�", מ� וף (crane, crowbar, elevator, heaver, impetus, lever, stimulus, winch, windlass), ל�"רים במ� וף, ל�"� יף (brandish, heave, toss, wave), �"רמ�" (lifting, raise, raising). (various references)

Hungarian

felvonó (elevator, lift), felvonás (act, reel), felhúzás (josh, pull up, rising), emelés (elevation, enthronement, enthronization, erection, heave, lift, lifting, raising), emelő (elevator, erector, gin, jack, lever, to lever sg up), daru (crane, Derrick). (various references)

Indonesian

mengerek, kerekan (winch). (various references)

Italian

montacarichi (elevator, goods lift). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

掲揚 (display, fly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

けいよう (description, display, figure, figure of speech, fly, form, modifying, qualification, stems and leaves, Tokyo and Chiba). (various references)

Korean 

호이스트. (various references)

Manx

yrjaghey (draw, elate, elation, elevation, enhance, exalt, exaltation, exhilarate, exhilaration, go up, heighten, raise, retract, rise), troggeyder (booster, breeder, builder, building contractor, constructor, developer, fancier, lift, lifter, rearer), troggal (arise, boost, breed, breeding, bring off, bringing up, build, building, buzz off, construct, contract, contract as disease, contraction, development, edifice, elaborate, elaboration, elevate, freshen, freshen of wind, gather up, getting up, harvest, heave, heave as shoulders, input, invoke, lift, lifting, nurture, pick off; absorption, pick up, pull in, put up, raise, raise up, rally, rear, rearing, rig up, rise, set in rows, sing up, structure, take, train, train as child, winch, wind, winding), heise (elevator), croghey (bank on, climb, cling, depend, drape, fly, hang, hinge, hinge as story, jack up, lean on, loft, pendant, pitch, sheer, spring, suspension, swing). (various references)

Norwegian

heise. (various references)

Papiamen

hisa (hoist up, lever, lift, raise, run up, wind up), isa (hoist up, run up, wind up). (various references)

Pig Latin

oisthay.(various references)

Portuguese

levantar (billow, boost, bring up, build, carry up, elevate, erect, hale, hoist up, hold up, jack, lift, mount, pitch, provoke, pull up, put up, raise, rear, rough, rouse, set up, up, upbear, upheave, uplift, upraise), guindaste (crane, jack, windlass). (various references)

Romanian

ridicare (adjournment, ascension, elevation, erection, growth, heave, heft, lift, raise, raising, removal, rise, rising, round up, shrug, uplift, upturning), ridica (advance, aggrandize, appear, arise, arrest, ascend, assemble, balloon, bring up, build, carry up, collect, construct, convene, create, draw the cloth, elevate, encash, enhance, erect, found, get up, heave, interpose, kick up, lift, loop, Mount, muster, perk up, pick up, pitch, pose, prong, pry, put, put up, raise, receive, remove, resound, rise, round up, salt, set up, shovel, start, step up, stick up, straighten, strike, suspend, take up, up, uplift, weigh), legãturã (band, bandage, bearing, bind, binder, binding, bond, brace, bracer, bunch, bundle, communion, concern, conjunction, connection, contact, cord, harmony, headkerchief, junction, knot, lashing, league, liaison, ligament, link, link up, marriage, nexus, pack, pertinence, rapport, reference, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, respect, sheaf, tie, touch, truss, unity), elevator (elevator, paternoster), arbora (hang out), înãlţare (elevation, erection, exaltation, lift, raising, rise, rising, upsurge), înãlţa (balloon, build, elevate, erect, exalt, heave, heighten, lift, put up, raise, set up, uplift). (various references)

Russian 

ворот (capstan, collar, crab, neckband, swipe, wheel and axle, winch, windlass), водружать (raise), лебедка (crab, donkey engine, winch, windlass), подъем (acclivity, ascent, climb, elevation, heave, heaving, instep, lift, lifting, raise, reveille, rise, rouse, take off, up, upgrade, uplift, uprise, upsurge, upswing, upturn, verve), поднятие (aggradation, elevation, lift), поднимать подъем;подъемник. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dizalica (crab, crane, derrick, elevator, jack, jack-lift, jenny, lifter, shear-legs, sheer-legs), dići (boost, elevate, heave, jack, lift, raise, rise, stir up). (various references)

Spanish

montacargas (elevator, lift, skip), enarbolar (fly, raise). (various references)

Swedish

vinscha (winch), hissa (fly, Jack, jack up, lever, lift, pulley, raise, run up). (various references)

Thai

เครื่องยก, ยกขึ้น (haul up, lift). (various references)

Turkish

yukarı çekmek (drive up, hike, hike up, pull up), yük asansörü (goods lift), vinç (crab, crane, Derrick, gantry crane, hoisting crane, hoisting engine, lifter, lifting jack, winch, windlass), kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, erect, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hold, hold up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, put up, quash, raise, reap, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise), kaldırma (abolition, defeasance, elevation, heave, heaving, lift, lifting, pickup, raising, superelevation, uptake), aşırmak (abstract, bag, cop, crib, filch, help oneself to, hook, make off with, mooch, pass over, pilfer, prig, purloin, scrounge, snaffle, snitch, steal, walk off with, whip), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw), çekme (allure, allurement, bearing, draft, draught, draw, drawing, extraction, haul, haulage, hitch, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, shrinkage, shrinking, soak, throwback, towage, towaway, towing, traction, withdrawal), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip). (various references)

Ukrainian

лебідка (gig, winch, windlass), підіймання, підйомник, піднімати (boost, bring up, draw up, elevate, haul up, heave, heft, levitate, lift, prong, put up, raise, raise up, rear, set up, take up, up, upbear, uphold, uplift, waken). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự kéo lên (rise, risen). (various references)

hyssen, trisen. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hoist": hoisted, hoister, hoisters, hoisting, hoists. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hoist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: haast, haist, heisst, hhoist, hiort, hisst, hizt, hoast, Hoestra, hoic, Hoise, hoisy, holst, hoost, Horisk, Houst, hovis, hoysa, hoyst, Hristo, Huasta, Huit, khlist, ohit, Oysth, thoist. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hist, hits, host, hots, shot, sith, soth, thio, this, tosh.

-2 letters: his, hit, hot, its, ohs, sit, sot, tho, tis.

-3 letters: hi, ho, is, it, oh, os, sh, si, so, ti, to.

+1 letter: dhotis, hoists, holist, lithos, thiols, tonish, toyish.

+2 letters: bigshot, bothies, chitons, coltish, dhootis, doltish, eoliths, ethions, goatish, gothics, heriots, hipshot, histoid, histone, history, hobbits, hogties, hoisted, hoister, hokiest, holiest, holists, homiest, hornist, hostile, hosting, hottish, isobath, isohyet, isotach, loutish, ooliths, ophites, ostrich, outfish, outhits, outwish, photics, shortia, shortie, softish, sophist, sottish, stonish, thorias, toadish, tonnish, townish.