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Definition of Hoise
1. v. t. To hoist.
Definition of Hoise
1. Verb. (transitive obsolete except in dialects or after Shakespeare) to hoist ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) (obsolete) : to hoist, be raised ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hoise
1. to hoist [v HOISED, HOISING, HOISES] - See also: hoist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoise
Literary usage of Hoise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Calendar of Wills on File and Recorded in the Offices of the Clerk of the by Berthold Fernow, New York (State). Court of Appeals, New York (State). Secretary's Office (1896)
"Witnesses Piter van Buren, Piter Kool and Jacob van hoise. Also in Albany Co.
Records, Wills, I., p. 237. PO FFIE, Antie, of Albany City, widow. ..."
2. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"Lo, like to brazier, burns The Isle, behind them, with much falling smoke ; And
ruds the waves. They, come out, to the large ; hoise ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"Mine own good Bat, before thou hoise up sail To make a furrow in the foaming
seas.—Gascoyne. Fr. sillon, a. furrow ; sillage, sillon de mer, ..."
4. The Beauties of Ireland: Being Original Delineations, Topographical by James Norris Brewer (1826)
"... ROCHFORT hoise, one of the finest mansions in this district, was the seat of
the late ... hoise ..."
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