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n.
A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a crane; a lift.
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].
v. t.
To hoist.
n.
A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.
v. t.
To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
p. p.
Hoisted.
n.
A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes.
imp. & p. p.
of Hoist
v. i.
To hoist; as, to sway up the yards.
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.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Hoist
n.
An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
v. t.
A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies.
n. pl.
A pair of grappling dogs for hoisting logs and timber.
n.
A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
n.
An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a wareroom.
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.
n.
The act of hoisting; a lift.
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.
n.
That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.
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