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Skip :: Skip (n.) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock..

Spandogs :: Spandogs (n. pl.) A pair of grappling dogs for hoisting logs and timber.

Gin :: Gin (n.) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim..

Parrel :: Parrel (n.) The rope or collar by which a yard or spar is held to the mast in such a way that it may be hoisted or lowered at pleasure.

Hoistway :: Hoistway (n.) An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a wareroom..

Hutch :: Hutch (n.) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit..

Drum :: Drum (n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound..

Spencer :: Spencer (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]..

Fall :: Fall (n.) That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.

Hoistaway :: Hoistaway (n.) A mechanical lift. See Elevator.

Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.

Stretcher :: Stretcher (n.) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.

Davit :: Davit (n.) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit..

Atrip :: Atrip (adv.) Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across; -- said of yards.

Corf :: Corf (n.) A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore.

Repeater :: Repeater (n.) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.

Brakeman :: Brakeman (n.) The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.

Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself..

Heave :: Heave (v. t.) To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land..

Lift :: Lift (n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.

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