Usually means: Lift or raise with mechanical aid.
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  1. hoist: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hoist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hoist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hoist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hoist: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hoist, hoist: Wordnik
  7. hoist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hoist: Wiktionary
  9. hoist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hoist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hoist: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hoist, hoist: Dictionary.com
  13. hoist: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hoist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hoist (album), Hoist (device), Hoist (flag), Hoist (mining), Hoist (motion), Hoist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hoist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hoist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hoist: Rhymezone
  19. Hoist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hoist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hoist: Free Dictionary
  22. hoist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hoist: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Hoist: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hoist: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hoist (device), hoist: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hoist: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hoist, hoist: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hoist: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Hoist: Latitude Mexico
  5. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).
verb:  (transitive, sports, often figurative) To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.
verb:  (transitive, historical) To lift someone up to be flogged.
verb:  (intransitive) To be lifted up.
verb:  (transitive, computing theory) To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To steal.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To rob.
noun:  Any member of certain classes of devices that hoist things.
noun:  The act of hoisting; a lift.
noun:  The triangular vertical position of a flag, as opposed to the flying state, or triangular vertical position of a sail, when flying from a mast.
noun:  The position of a flag (on a mast) or of a sail on a ship when lifted up to its highest level.
noun:  The position of a main fore-and-aft topsail on a ship and fore fore-and-aft topsail on a ship.

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