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Hoist is slang for to steal, particularly by shoplifting or pickpocketing. Hoist is slang for a thief, particularly a shoplifter or pickpocket.Hoist was th century slang for a two−man robbery in which one man would stand upon the other in order to effect a high−rise entry into a building. Hoist is American slang for to raise and down a drink, particularly beer.
A lad's legs would be held (one person on each, another couple holding his arms) and he would be pulled so that each leg was either side of a goal post, and pressure was exerted on the aforementioned nether regions until the person screamed, and finally the "hoisty" which was the same as the posty, but a crossbar is used instead of a goal post.
extraction of a soldier by helicopter, using its hoist due to the triple canopy, while under fire.
Hoister is slang for a thief, particularly a shoplifter or pickpocket.
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v. t.
A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies.
v. i.
To hoist; as, to sway up the yards.
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A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a crane; a lift.
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A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].
n.
An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a wareroom.
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A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes.
n.
That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.
n.
A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.
v. t.
To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
v. t.
To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
n. pl.
A pair of grappling dogs for hoisting logs and timber.
p. p.
Hoisted.
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A chain or rope, one end of which passes through the mast, and is made fast to the center of a yard; the other end is attached to a tackle, by means of which the yard is hoisted or lowered.
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A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer.
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A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
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A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
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The act of hoisting; a lift.
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An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
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