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  • hissen (“to hoist”), Danish hejse (“to hoist”). Compare also French hisser (“to hoist”), Catalan hissar (“to hoist”), Italian issare (“to hoist”), Sicilian...
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  • uphoist (category English terms prefixed with up-)
    From up- +‎ hoist. uphoist (third-person singular simple present uphoists, present participle uphoisting, simple past and past participle uphoisted) (archaic)...
    233 bytes (26 words) - 03:56, 28 September 2024
  • Wikipedia has an article on: hoist with his own petard Wikipedia hoist with one's own petard, hoist on one's own petard, hoisted by one's own petard From...
    5 KB (415 words) - 00:51, 1 December 2024
  • up (third-person singular simple present trices up, present participle tricing up, simple past and past participle triced up) (nautical) to hoist up using...
    217 bytes (49 words) - 03:42, 2 June 2024
  • frames up there a lot easier than using the high-reach” Art happily states. “Let's move this operation down to the buck-hoist and get the frames up over...
    618 bytes (89 words) - 22:54, 14 December 2022
  • Hills hoist English Wikipedia has an article on: Hills Hoist Wikipedia Hills hoist From genitive of Hill (“a surname”) (with elided apostrophe) + hoist (“lift”);...
    3 KB (267 words) - 03:37, 28 September 2024
  • company was acquired by Bil-Jax. buck hoist (plural buck hoists) An external elevator, especially a temporary one up the side of a building that is under...
    2 KB (165 words) - 03:59, 28 September 2024
  • hoist on one's own petard Alternative form of hoist by one's own petard 1978 January, Richard Lipez, “The New Big One”, in The Atlantic‎[1], page 89:...
    712 bytes (95 words) - 17:38, 10 October 2023
  • better to secure his slippery hand-hold on the whip itself, the hoisters ran him high up to the top of the head, almost before Tashtego could have reached...
    1 KB (150 words) - 01:30, 19 August 2024
  • [ˈvʊndɪ] vundið Supine of vinda wrung, twisted wound hoisted Merkið er vundið í húnar hátt. The Faroese flag is hoisted up to the masthead (not half-mast)....
    322 bytes (29 words) - 05:11, 15 October 2019
  • Compare Italian inalberare. alborur to hoist, raise to flare up...
    136 bytes (10 words) - 11:01, 18 September 2019
  • auxiliary avére) (transitive) to spiff up (transitive) to dress up, deck out, doll up (transitive, nautical) to hoist; to weigh (the anchor)     Conjugation...
    522 bytes (65 words) - 03:04, 23 February 2023
  • *h₂wer- (“to raise, hang”) (compare Ancient Greek ἀείρω (aeírō, “to heave, hoist up”), Lithuanian vérti (“to weigh”)). vjerr (aorist vora, participle vjerrë)...
    667 bytes (65 words) - 02:18, 28 January 2024
  • Composed of past stem ανελκυσ- of the verb ανελκύω (anelkýo, “to pull up, to hoist”) + -τήρας, from Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr). IPA(key): /anelciˈstiɾas/...
    703 bytes (57 words) - 01:08, 16 September 2024
  • signal used on early American railroads, consisting of wooden balls, painted various colors, that were hoisted up and down a pole using a rope and pulley....
    275 bytes (36 words) - 20:10, 6 February 2017
  • till the cringle was down on the boom. Then I'd tie her up the way you said, and then I'd hoist up the peak and throat halyards again." A withe for fastening...
    1 KB (126 words) - 03:41, 28 September 2024
  • participle issàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive, also nautical) to hoist (transitive) to haul up (transitive, nautical) to weigh (an anchor)     Conjugation...
    543 bytes (71 words) - 01:40, 23 February 2023
  • See also: jack-up Sense of “hoist with a jack” is from 1885; then, “increase prices, etc.” (1904, American English); both ultimately from noun jack (“mechanical...
    7 KB (821 words) - 20:33, 11 August 2024
  • downwards-pointing red triangle. From the red triangle in the Palestinian flag, held hoist-up. 🔻 (social media, politics) indicates support for Palestine or for Hamas...
    782 bytes (67 words) - 02:23, 12 October 2024
  • (transitive) to take aboard, hoist, pick up (transitive) to charge, attack (transitive, electricity) to charge (transitive) to wind, wind up (e.g. a watch) (transitive...
    794 bytes (66 words) - 05:27, 18 October 2019
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