I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hoist/lower the sails (= put the sails up or down )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
flag
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The sanctity of traditional ownership and lineage are hoisted like clannish flags .
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Behaviouralism, for instance, has self-consciously hoisted its own flag and been sharply critical of Realism.
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Another community, Jank'o Amaya, is now hoisting its own white flag .
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In its place we hoisted our own flag .
petard
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He discovered that he was being hoist with his own petard .
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As elsewhere, a too zealous objector is hoist by his own petard .
sail
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And King Bucar and they who escaped with him hoisted sails and went their way, and never more turned their heads.
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But the captain mocked him for a silly fool and bade the crew hasten to hoist the sail .
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Then, before hoisting the sail , I trundled the wheelbarrow on to the road.
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We would push out the boat, hoist the sail and visit the lobster pots and conger lines.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A school custodian hoisted the American flag every morning.
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Fathers hoisted sons on their shoulders to see Mr. Mandela.
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Joe picked up the sack and hoisted it onto the truck.
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The crowd hoisted him onto their shoulders and carried him triumphantly down the main street.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A third, operating the crane, which commands the entire foundry floor, hoists the ladle.
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Bill Maher hoists a fat folder filled with newspaper clippings on to a virtually empty desk in his new Los Angeles office.
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She parked the car and hoisted the plastic carriers from the boot, perching the flat, be-ribboned pâtisserie box on top.
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The plan, evidently, is to hoist Pretoria with its own petard.
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Three burly workmen duly arrived, complete with truck and mini-crane, to hoist the heavy bins into position.
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Upon arrival at the docks, the Spitfires were immediately hoisted on to the carrier deck.
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We fired, I think, about six shots when our recall signal was hoisted on the Cumberland.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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High Street banks raised their lending rates by two percent following the Government's initial interest rate hoist .
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It was the hoist for the backhoe.
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The hoist turned, and the bell was allowed to 42 slide down to touch the calm surface of the water.
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Tregoning will never operate a hoist again, not in California.
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When possible, lifting should be avoided and appropriate equipment, such as a hoist , used in preference.