hoised

Variant of hoise

hoise definition

hoise (ho̵iz)

transitive verb hoised or hoist, hoising hois′·ing

Obsolete hoist

Etymology: Early ModE phonetic sp. of earlier hyce < Du hijschen < or akin to LowG hissen: of naut. orig.

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