Word Meanings - HOIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails. Pope. Hoisting him into his father's throne.

Additional info about word: HOIST

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. They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails. Pope. Hoisting him into his father's throne. South. Hoisting engine, a steam engine for operating a hoist.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HOIST)

• Heave
• Lift
• raise
• uplift
• upraise
• sublevate
• hoist
• Raise
• elevate
• upheave
• exalt
• elate
• erect

Related words: (words related to HOIST)

• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• EXALTMENT
  Exaltation. Barrow.
• HOIST
  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. They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails. Pope. Hoisting him into his father's throne.
• HOISTAWAY
  A mechanical lift. See Elevator.
• HOISTWAY
  An opening for the hoist, or
• ERECTILITY
  The quality or state of being erectile.
• ELATEROMETER
  See ELATROMETER
• ERECTIVE
  Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect.
• ELATE
  figure, perh., being borrowed from a prancing horse); e out + latus , for tlatus, and akin to E. 1. Lifted up; raised; elevated. With upper lip elate. Fenton. And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes, elate, Sits
• HEAVEN
  hevan, LG. heben, heven, Icel. hifinn; of uncertain origin, cf. D. hemel, G. himmel, Icel. himmin, Goth. himins; perh. akin to, or influenced by, the root of E. heave, or from a root signifying to cover, cf. Goth. gaham to put on, clothe one's
• EXALTATE
  Exercising its highest influence; -- said of a planet. Chaucer.
• HEAVENLY
  1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music. As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1 Cor. xv.
• RAISER
  One who, or that which, raises .
• HEAVE OFFERING
  An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. See Wave offering. Ex. xxix.
• EXALTATION
  The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property. (more info) 1. The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation. Wondering at my flight, and change To this
• HEAVER
  A bar used as a lever. Totten. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.
• ERECTO-PATENT
  Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.
• ELATER
  One who, or that which, elates.
• ERECTLY
  In an erect manner or posture.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• SPHACELATE
  To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.
• FRAISE
  A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. Johnson.
• CRENELATE
  1. To furnish with crenelles. 2. To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf. Crenelated molding , a kind of indented molding used in Norman buildings.
• SHEAVED
  Made of straw. Shak.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• THEAVE
  A ewe lamb of the first year; also, a sheep three years old. Halliwell.
• FRAISED
  Fortified with a fraise.
• BRAISE; BRAIZE
  A European marine fish allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.
• PRELATEITY
  Prelacy. Milton.
• CORRELATE
  To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor.