hoist

(hoist), v. t. [Also dial. hist; a later form of hoise, due prob. to the pp. hoist, vulgarly hist: see hoise.] To raise; lift; elevate; especially, to raise by means of block and tackle or other machinery. I have hoisted sail to all the winds Which should transport me farthest from your sight. Shak., Sonnets, exvii. Where other princes, hoisted to their thrones By Fortune’s pa ionate and disordered power, sit in their height. B, Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. Deposits formed originally on the floor of the sea have been hoisted above water, and now form the bulk of our dry land. Hualey, Physiography, p. 215. Holaspidee Hoisted and swung (naut.), ready to be lowered into the water at the word of command, as a boat. =Syn. Heave, Lift, ete. See raise. hoist (hoist), ”. [