hoist 的 2 个定义
- to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance: to hoist a flag; to hoist the mainsail.
- to raise to one's lips and drink; drink with gusto: Let's go hoist a few beers.
- Archaic. a simple past tense and past participle of hoise.
- an apparatus for hoisting, as a block and tackle, a derrick, or a crane.
- act of hoisting; a lift: Give that sofa a hoist at your end.
- Nautical. the vertical dimension amidships of any square sail that is hoisted with a yard.Compare drop. the distance between the hoisted and the lowered position of such a yard.the dimension of a fore-and-aft sail along the luff.a number of flags raised together as a signal.
- the vertical dimension as flown from a vertical staff.the edge running next to the staff.Compare fly.
hoist 近义词
lift
更多hoist例句
- Once Judin was attached, the hoist brought them both back up.
- Rescuing someone via a helicopter and its hoist is an especially dramatic and effective way for the Coast Guard to grab someone in distress at sea.
- We lowered the hoist, Moore attached it to both him and the swimmer, and we pulled them back up and out of the water.
- Commander David McCown, the air station’s executive officer, estimates hoist rescues happen roughly once a month.
- Then the hoist pulled him up and out, and—after a thumbs-up from the duck—lowered him out of sight and into the sea.
- We happily hoist our egg nog in the air, embrace each other, and raise our out-of-tune voices in song.
- Hoist that big historical asterisk skyward and place it next to his name.
- Carter scurried back to Mace and reached down to hoist him up.
- But a significant number of your fellow citizens have a very different vision as they hoist the flag.
- But the regime's canons push them back before they can hoist their flag over the liberated barracks.
- The slings were affixed, the order to hoist was given by the mate, who had descended from the poop, and stood near the gangway.
- If with the Vice-Admiral he will hoist a white flag at the end of the gaff or derrick, and fire two guns.
- Harvey, without further notice of his companion, proceeded to hoist the sail a little so that he could take two reefs in it.
- I will make a windlass as soon as I can, and we will soon hoist out another, like they turn a bucket of water up from a well.
- I know 'em all, for I took care of their hall,—their armory,—and they made me hoist the flag one day union down.