0 to lift sth, especially using special equipment -- heise
1 to lift (something heavy) -- heise, hive, kaste
2 to raise or lift by means of some apparatus, a rope etc -- heise, heve, løfte
3 an apparatus for lifting usually heavy objects -- heis(eapparat)
a luggage hoist.
4 a lift or push up -- skubb, løft
Give me a hoist over this wall, will you!
If they are right, then at last the signal is hoisted that our decline has begun, and will continue.
We have been hoisted by the fact that local government reorganisation committed local authorities to greater expenditure.
If that does not work, they are hoisted out of bed.
There were nine industrial deaths due to vehicles—not necessarily cars—falling from jacks, ramps or hoists between 1978 and 1980.
There remain then twenty-three admirals who have hoisted their flags.
They can only be hoisted into a specially adapted vehicle.
They were promised two years' hard slog, with growth stifled, taxes hoisted, prices soaring, employment falling.
One hoisted one flag and one showed another.
