0 present participle of hoist --
1 to lift something heavy, sometimes using ropes or a machine: --
With some difficulty he hoisted her onto his shoulders.
A helicopter hoisted the final section of the bridge into place.
It means hoisting the black flag of despair.
I only wish that he gave us more opportunity of hoisting him with his own petard.
I do not find that any of them are hoisting flags of distress.
These instructions include rules for hoisting flags and the dates and occasions on which this should be done.
Link drive control from the point of component hoisting and displacement to the point of positioning should be carried out along the velocity vector under position control.
In addition to the official flag hoisting and the geodetic measurements, three samples of gravel and one sample with moss were collected north of the ice cap.
Epstein understands the hoisting of the cap as an attempt to take popular control of public space, and to create a sense of communal solidarity.
Transportation damage: delivering these panels to the construction site and hoisting them into place subjects them to damage from vibration and impacts.
