Dictionary Entry
hoist
hoist is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2noun
That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.
- 3noun
The act of hoisting; a lift.
- 4noun
The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff.
- 5noun
The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.
- 6past participle
Hoisted.
- 7noun
lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects
- 8verb
raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
"hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
- 9verb
raise
"hoist the flags"
"hoist a sail"
- 10verb
move from one place to another by lifting
"They hoisted the patient onto the operating table"
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