Hoise

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To raise; lift; elevate; hoist.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To hoist.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to hoist
  • verb. (obsolete): to hoist, be raised
  • Word Usage
    "French trot, everie step being ready to hoise him out of his saddle, hearing Giottos discreete answers to every ydle question he made (for indeede he was a very elegant speaker) began to peruse and surveigh him, even from the foote to the head, as we use to say."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hoist