- 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 (especially beer or whiskey) with gusto: Let's go hoist a few beers.
- 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.
- 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.
- (on a flag)
- the vertical dimension as flown from a vertical staff.
- the edge running next to the staff.
- to raise or lift up, esp by mechanical means
- hoist with one's own petard See petard (def. 2)
- any apparatus or device for hoisting
- the act of hoisting
- See rotary clothesline
- nautical
- the amidships height of a sail bent to the yard with which it is hoisted
- the difference between the set and lowered positions of this yard
- the length of the luff of a fore-and-aft sail
- a group of signal flags
- the inner edge of a flag next to the staff
