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Hoisting :: Hoisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hois.

Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff..

Guy :: Guy (n.) A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened..

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

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

Tug :: Tug (n.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed..

Atrip :: Atrip (adv.) Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails..

Cathead :: Cathead (n.) A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured..

Log :: Log (n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

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

Chockablock :: Chockablock (a.) Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting..

Trysail :: Trysail (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer..

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..

Catfall :: Catfall (n.) A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead.

Hoist :: Hoist (n.) That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.

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.

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies..

Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To hoist; as, to sway up the yards..

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

Can Hook :: Can hook () A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves..

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