2. Verb. (third-person singular of heist) ¹
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Definition of Heists
1. heist [v] - See also: heist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heists
Literary usage of Heists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Bibliographer by Joseph Haslewood, Sir Egerton Brydges (1814)
"... heists, Of God maist high they hald the heists. The verie deuils dare nocht
rebell, Against his Maiestie and might, ..."
2. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon (1874)
"The heists are worked by a steam-engine, either separately or together, and lift
to the upper floor which contains the dry presses, the general finishing ..."
3. Practice of the Court of Referees on Private Bills in Parliament: With by Pembroke Scott Stephens (1871)
"There exist at present at Anderton the means of transferring goods from the Trent
and Mersey canal to the Weaver and vice versa, by means of steam heists ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... heists, magicians, hypocrites, surh a* have cauterized consciences, or else
are in a reprobate Idly secure, some philosophers, impenitent ubs. 1. ..."
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