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

Hoisted :: Hoisted (imp. & p. p.) of Hois.

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

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.

Snow :: Snow (n.) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted..

Top-rope :: Top-rope (n.) A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes..

Glossocomon :: Glossocomon (n.) A kind of hoisting winch.

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

Tye :: Tye (n.) A chain or rope, one end of which passes through the mast, and is made fast to the center of a yard; the other end is attached to a tackle, by means of which the yard is hoisted or lowered..

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (v. t.) To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.

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

Overwind :: Overwind (v. t.) To wind too tightly, as a spring, or too far, as a hoisting rope on a drum..

Hudge :: Hudge (n.) An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore.

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State..

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.

Cage :: Cage (n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.

Hatch :: Hatch (n.) An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening..

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..

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

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