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Example sentences for: hoist

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A cat purchase is a rope tackle used for hauling an anchor, especially on a cat davit , a light crane used on small vessels to hoist an anchor so it can then be swung round to lower the anchor on to the deck or overboard.
Some of the material is international underworld slang: hoist `steal,' beak Brit . `magistrate or judge,' chiseller swindler,' dip `pickpocket,' the rap the punishment, blame, etc.', screw Brit . `prison guard.
These work practices included using the cooling coils beyond the time when the degreaser was being used, weekly monitoring of the coils, covering the degreaser when not in use, and lowering hoist speed to 2.6 meters per minute (8.
It correctly derives hawser from the obsolete verb hawse, which had indeed the sense of “to hoist,” but is really a derivative, as shown, of the Latin altus.
The word hawser has nothing whatever to do with the verb to hoist; neither does the `N.E.D.