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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.

2. The act of hoisting; a lift. [Collog.]

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: participle (p.)

Hoisted. [Obs.] 'Tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar. Shak.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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