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

Derrick :: Derrick (n.) A mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building..

Top-tackle :: Top-tackle (n.) A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.

Hoist :: Hoist (p. p.) Hoisted.

Flagstaff :: Flagstaff (n.) A staff on which a flag is hoisted.

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..

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

Outrigger :: Outrigger (n.) Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building, to support hoisting teckle..

Hoise :: Hoise (v. t.) To hoist.

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

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

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]..

Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The act of hoisting; a lift.

Lewisson :: Lewisson (n.) An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc..

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..

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

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

Garnet :: Garnet (n.) A tackle for hoisting cargo in our out.

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

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

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