Definition of "hoise" [hoise]

• To hoist (verb)
• (obsolete): to hoist, be raised (verb)

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• "French trot, everie step being ready to hoise him out of his saddle, hearing Giottos discreete answers to every ydle question he made (for indeede he was a very elegant speaker) began to peruse and surveigh him, even from the foote to the head, as we use to say."
• "I hoise [22] up Parnell partly to spite the envious Irish folks here, particularly Tom Leigh."
• "But nowe it is high time for vs to weigh our ancre, to hoise vp our sailes, to get cleare of these boistrous, frosty, and misty seas, and with all speede to direct our course for the milde, lightsome, temperate, and warme Atlantick"