Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight). · To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory. · To lift someone up to be flogged. · To be lifted up.
Any member of certain classes of devices that hoist things. · The act of hoisting; a lift. · The triangular vertical position of a flag, as opposed to the flying state, or triangular vertical position of a sail, when flying from a mast. · The position of a flag (on a mast) or of a sail on a ship when lifted up to its highest level.
Alteration of earlier hoise (“to hoist”), apparently based on the past tense forms, from Middle Dutch hisen (“to hoist”). Compare modern Dutch hijsen (“to hoist”), German hissen (“to hoist”), Danish hejse (“to hoist”). Compare also French hisser (“to hoist”), Galician isar (“to hoist”), Spanish izar (“to hoist”), Catalan hissar (“to hoist”), Italian issare (“to hoist”), Portuguese içar (“to hoist”), Sicilian jisari (“to hoist”), all borrowed from a Germanic source.
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- Borrowed-form mentionhisendum · to hoist
- Cognate mentionhijsennl · to hoist
- Cognate mentionhissende · to hoist
- Cognate mentionhejseda · to hoist
- Cognate mentionhisserfr · to hoist
- Cognate mentionisargl · to hoist
- Cognate mentionizares · to hoist
- Cognate mentionhissarca · to hoist
- Cognate mentionissareit · to hoist
- Cognate mentioniçarpt · to hoist
- Cognate mentionjisariscn · to hoist
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