hoisted
悬挂的,被提升的,抬起来的,抬起的
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Definitions
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- : 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.
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- : 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.
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Examples
She testified that she and her fellow officers had then hoisted Davis to his feet.
On the contrary, it should be hoisted on our collective shoulders and cheered Rudy-style.
Pictures showed Lee being hoisted off the ship on a rope, aided by other crew members, well before the ship sank completely.
As the Cuban flag was hoisted in recognition of his arrival, something quite unexpected happened—it fell off the pole.
They not only hoisted Russian flags, but reportedly beat Ukrainians who expressed indignation at Russian aggression in Crimea.
I then found myself hoisted up by degrees, at least three feet higher than I was before.
As it came near, it proved to be the clock, with a sail hoisted, and the Goblin sitting complacently in the stern.
He drew up the rocker, hoisted his slippered feet on the rail, and proceeded to smoke a cigar.
Before the breath could have been well out of his body, they hoisted him up and carried him away to burial.
For some time after the white flag was hoisted there was street-fighting between the rebels and the loyals.