1) Apparatus for lifting 2) Autobot 3) Bring up 4) Crane 5) Crank 6) Davit 7) Derrick 8) Derrick or crane 9) Derricks do it 10) Device for heavy lifting 11) Do some heavy lifting 12) Dumbwaiter 13) Dumbwaiter, essentially 14) Elevate 15) Elevator of a sort 16) Elevator or tackle 17) Gantry 18) Get up
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1) Block and tackle 2) Boost 3) Davit 4) Elevate 5) Heave 6) Heft 7) Hike up 8) Jack 9) Lift 10) Lift up 11) Raise 12) Upraise 13) Winch
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[Transformers] Hoist is the name of two fictional characters in the Transformers universes. ==Transformers: Generation 1== In the original Transformers toy line, Hoist (Treuil in Québec, Buffalo in Italy) is an Autobot who functions as a repairman for the team, keeping them to a tight maintenance schedule. Hoist is jovial and strong and so...
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[device] A hoist is a device used for lifting or lowering a load by means of a drum or lift-wheel around which rope or chain wraps. It may be manually operated, electrically or pneumatically driven and may use chain, fiber or wire rope as its lifting medium. The load is attached to the hoist by means of a lifting hook. == Types of Hoist == ...
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[mining] In underground mining a hoist or winder is used to raise and lower conveyances within the mine shaft. Modern hoists are normally powered using electric motors, historically with direct current drives utilizing solid-state converters (thyristors), however modern large hoists utilize alternating current drives that are variable frequ...
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[motion] A hoist motion is used in Canadian legislative bodies to cause a bill not to be read now, but six months hence, or any number of months hence. In the House of Commons, if a hoist motion is adopted, it has the effect of defeating the bill. ...
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• (n.) The act of hoisting; a lift. • (p. p.) Hoisted. • (v. t.) To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight. • (n.) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay. • (n.) That by which anything is hoisted; the appara...
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mechanical device used primarily for raising and lowering heavy loads but occasionally for moving objects horizontally. It usually consists of a ... [1 related articles]
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A drum on which hoisting rope is wound in the engine house, as the cage or skip is raised in the hoisting shaft.
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A hoist is a device often used on construction sites for the raising and lowering of heavy or cumbersome objects.
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A hoist is an appliance whose rotational movement is restricted by guides or rails. It can only move in the vertical plane.
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is the part of the flag closest to the staff. The term is also used for the vertical width of a flag.
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1. an arrangement of pulleys and wire rope or chain used for lifting heavy objects; a winch or similar device. 2. the drawworks; to raise or lift
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Hoist noun 1. That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.
2. The act of hoisting; a lift. [ Collog.]
3. (Nautical) (a) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the
fly , or horizontal length when flying from a staff.
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Hoist past participle Hoisted. [ Obsolete] « 'T is the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar.»
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Hoist transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Hoisted ;
present participle & verbal noun Hoisting .] [ Middle English
hoise ,
hyse , OD.
hyssen , Dutch
hijshen ; akin to LG.
hissen , Danish
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Hoist is slang for to steal, particularly by shoplifting or pick pocketing.
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A drum on which hoisting rope is wound in the engine house, as the cage or skip is raised in the hoisting shaft.
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Device that raises and lowers coils to and from reels.
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Mechanical lifting device.
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verb raise; `hoist the flags`; `hoist a sail`
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noun lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects
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A chain or electric lifting device usually attached to a trolly which travels along a monorail or bridge crane.
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A lifting device which can be installed in a building to lift weights. A hoist can be suspended from a strong point in a building; or it can be on a trolley on a monorail, running in a straight line anywhere in the building. A hoist can be manual or electric.
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[Pirate glossary] raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
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