Hoist (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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verb (used with object)
  1. to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance: to hoist a flag; to hoist the mainsail.
  2. to raise to one's lips and drink; drink (especially beer or whiskey) with gusto: Let's go hoist a few beers.
  3. a simple past tense and past participle of hoise.
noun
  1. an apparatus for hoisting, as a block and tackle, a derrick, or a crane.
  2. act of hoisting; a lift: Give that sofa a hoist at your end.
  3. 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.
  4. (on a flag)
    • the vertical dimension as flown from a vertical staff.
    • the edge running next to the staff.
Idioms
  1. petard (def. 4).
verb
  1. to raise or lift up, esp by mechanical means
  2. hoist with one's own petard See petard (def. 2)
noun
  1. any apparatus or device for hoisting
  2. the act of hoisting
  3. See rotary clothesline
  4. 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
  5. the length of the luff of a fore-and-aft sail
  6. a group of signal flags
  7. the inner edge of a flag next to the staff
Hoist (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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