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hoist

See also: host

English

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hoisting

Etymology

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Alteration of earlier hoise (“to hoist”), apparently based on the past tense forms, from Middle Dutch hisen (“to hoist”). Compare modern Dutch hijsen (“to hoist”), German hissen (“to hoist”), Danish hejse (“to hoist”). Compare also French hisser (“to hoist”), Catalan hissar (“to hoist”), Italian issare (“to hoist”), Sicilian jisari (“to hoist”), all borrowed from a Germanic source.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /hɔɪst/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: hoist
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪst

Verb

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hoist (third-person singular simple present hoists, present participle hoisting, simple past and past participle hoisted or hoist)

  1. (transitive) To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).
  2. (transitive, sports, often figurative) To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.
    • 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      And when skipper Richie McCaw hoisted the Webb Ellis Trophy high into the night, a quarter of a century of hurt was blown away in an explosion of fireworks and cheering.
  3. (transitive, historical) To lift someone up to be flogged.
    • 1881, H.C. Leonard, A Translation of the Anglo-Saxon Version of St. Mark’s Gospel‎[2], page 83:
      Again Pilatus answered them, What shall I do to the Jew’s king? They again cried out and said, Hoist him! Then said Pilatus, What evil did he? They so much the more cried, Hoist him!
  4. (intransitive) To be lifted up.
  5. (transitive, computing theory) To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
  6. (transitive, slang) To steal.
    • 2006, Margaret Atwood, The Tent:
      When you’ve reached neutral territory, when you’ve stashed the loot hoisted from the warlord’s mansion – well, he didn't have much use for it any more, did he?
  7. (transitive, slang) To rob.
    • 1948, Leslie Charteris, Saint Errant, page 103:
      Why, it was nothing to travel about the country with fifty grand worth of ice on me. Suppose I hadn’t packed a roscoe—hell, I’d of been hoisted once a week!

Usage notes

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  • "Hoisted" is about fifteen times more common than "hoist" in US usage as past and past participle. The "hoist" form is also uncommon in the UK except in the expression "hoist by one's own petard".

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Noun

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hoist (plural hoists)

  1. Any member of certain classes of devices that hoist things.
    Hyponyms: block and tackle, polyspast, muffle; chainfall; crane
    Coordinate terms: come-along, davit, jack, winch
  2. The act of hoisting; a lift.
    Give me a hoist over that wall.
  3. The triangular vertical position of a flag, as opposed to the flying state, or triangular vertical position of a sail, when flying from a mast.
  4. The position of a flag (on a mast) or of a sail on a ship when lifted up to its highest level.
  5. The position of a main fore-and-aft topsail on a ship and fore fore-and-aft topsail on a ship.

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