hoist
Noun
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Lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects (synset 103530254)
is a type of: lifting device - a device for lifting heavy loadssubtypes:
- block and tackle - pulley blocks with associated rope or cable
- headgear - the hoist at the pithead of a mine
- wheel and axle - hoist so arranged that a rope unwinding from a wheel is wound onto a cylindrical drum or shaft coaxial with the wheel
Verb
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Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help (synset 201457813)
"hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
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Move from one place to another by lifting (synset 201614263)
"They hoisted the patient onto the operating table"
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Raise (synset 201458383)
"hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail"same as: run up
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