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hoist
  1. A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane.
  2. The act of hoisting; a lift.
  3. The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff.
  4. The vertical edge of a flag which is next to the staff.
  5. The height of a fore-and-aft sail, next the mast or stay.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “You can mount a swivel hoist ring on top of a heavy object, after which you can use a hoist to lift the object.”
hoisting
  1. The act by which something is hoisted.
  2. (programming) The behaviour of Javascript syntax which allows variables to be used before they are declared.
  3. Synonyms:
hoistway
  1. An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a warehouse.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The elevator platform was then raised in increments so that pallets could be made up at the factory deck level until the hoistway was cleared.”
      “This became an accepted routine situational adaptation done to allow easier access to the elevator hoistway.”
      “We rode up to the twenty-eighth floor, a single vast room, with various hoistway openings in the floor, like crevasses.”
hoister
  1. One who, or that which, hoists.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Aside from the superb quality of the hoister itself, the heart of the rig beats in the uniquely designed paddle.”
      “Nah he'd nivver tasted a hoister i' all his life, it wor summat new, soa he went up to th' chap an axt for one.”
      “While McCloskey was still prophesying failure, he was giving the word to Darby, the hoister engineer.”
hoistings
hoistways
  1. plural of hoistway
hoisters
  1. plural of hoister
  2. Examples:
    1. “Although many other materials and designs have been used to make these hoisters, nothing beats the elegance of the original.”
      Hoisters who can't be there in person can still make Samuel Adams stein hoisting history from the comfort of their own homes.”
hoists
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