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Definition of Heisting
1. heist [v] - See also: heist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heisting
Literary usage of Heisting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1874)
"3854 is of a lifting or heisting crab ; Fig. 3855 an improved traversing jack ;
Fig. 3856 Haley•s screw-jack ; Fig. 3857 a tripod jack. ..."
2. The San Francisco Chronicle and Its History: The Story of Its Foundation by The San Francisco Chronicle (1879)
"On the main shall before mentioned, the main heisting wheel is fixed. ... the eage
or heisting rope, a steel strand of one and a half ..."
3. The Law of General Average: (English and Foreign) by Richard Lowndes (1888)
"... or the ship duly moored, or proper heisting tackle on board, or from having
overloaded the ship, or any other accident arising from the negligence or ..."
4. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"... in which the airblast is heated, it is a heisting-back. 2. (Bookbinding. )
The I)art to which the sides of the cover are attached, and which receives ..."
5. Half-hours with the Best American Authors by Charles Morris (1886)
"Then, heisting themselves on the proper road, without being otherwise troubled
or fatigued, they found themselves at their place of destination. ..."
6. The Purification of Sewage and Water by William Joseph Dibdin (1903)
"... being similar to a heisting crab. This machine is driven by a 36-inch pulley
with 5-inch face, actuated by a cotton webbed belt from the main lino shaft ..."
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