'T is the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar. --Shak.
Hoist \Hoist\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hoisted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hoisting}.] [OE. hoise, hyse, OD. hyssen, D. hijshen; akin to LG. hissen, Dan. hisse, Sw. hissa.] 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.
They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails. --Pope.
Hoisting him into his father's throne. --South.
{Hoisting engine}, a steam engine for operating a hoist.
Hoist \Hoist\, n. 1. That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.
2. The act of hoisting; a lift. [Colloq.]
3. (Naut.) (a) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff. (b) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay. --Totten.
{Hoist bridge}, a drawbridge that is lifted instead of being swung or drawn aside.
Television reports said workers sawed the Dutch chemical tanker Anna Broere into two pieces and planned to hoist the parts from the floor of the North Sea.
Crew members aboard the Coast Guard cutter "Boutwell" tried to contact the master of the vessel by radio, flag hoist, and waving, Herlihy said.
He and fellow driver Steven Spahr hoist half a dozen bicycles and a kayak on top.
The Air Force is replacing the Titan 34D with the more powerful Titan 4, the first of which successfully boosted a missile warning satellite into orbit on June 14. The new rocket can hoist 39,000 pounds to Earth orbit or 10,000 pounds to stationary orbit.
It took 19 people using a hoist to get the anesthetized, 1,350-pound stallion onto the operating table.
A small airplane that tried to hoist a banner aloft from an airport and fly it over a professional football game crashed Sunday, killing the pilot, a police official said.
It could hoist 240,000 pounds into orbit.
After the shell is placed in the gun, a door is opened to the gun room from the powder hoist room.
The helicopter pilot turned over the controls to the co-pilot and was lowered by hoist to a nearby ledge, where he gave the woman his helmet and helped her into the hoist harness, Hinde said.
The helicopter pilot turned over the controls to the co-pilot and was lowered by hoist to a nearby ledge, where he gave the woman his helmet and helped her into the hoist harness, Hinde said.
In department-store displays, faux-Asmat carvings cradle the palette of colors plugged as "natural." Behind the counter is a videotaped fashion show, where Irian university students dressed in ethnic costume hoist models down the runway.
George Hook, owner of the construction company that is relocating the church for free, said two 20-ton hydraulic lifts would be used to hoist the termite-ridden structure onto a flatbed truck.
This production was supposed to have been retired from service a few years back; but in hard times its crowd-pulling tendencies amounted to an offer ENO could not refuse, and it has been hoist into harness once more. I have no quarrel with that.
Marks and Spencer has again been hoist by its own reticence.
The curriculum, to be phased in from 1990 to 1994, requires teachers to hoist the Rising Sun flag and have students sing the anthem at such events as graduation ceremonies.
Strollers and cyclists along a bike trail there were stunned to see program volunteers hoist the caged beavers _ one as heavy as 60 pounds _ out of the water.
Energia can hoist more than 100 tons, and the orbiter itself can carry about 66,000 pounds.
Then, Mr. Calkins was "hoist with one's own petard."