Your Daily Word Prompt – #Hoist – #YDWordPrompt February 26, 2020

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Today’s Word:  Hoist

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HOIST

verb (used with object)

• 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.
• Archaic. a simple past tense and past participle of hoise.

noun

• 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.
  1. the vertical dimension amidships of any square sail that is hoisted with a yard.Compare drop(def 28).
  2. the distance between the hoisted and the lowered position of such a yard.
  3. the dimension of a fore-and-aft sail along the luff.
  4. a number of flags raised together as a signal.

(on a flag)

1. the vertical dimension as flown from a vertical staff.
2. the edge running next to the staff.Compare fly¹(def 30b).

Definition from Dictionary.com

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