Word: hoist
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Synonyms: hoist
waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels
Translations: hoist
The meaning and "use of": hoist
- an act of raising or lifting something. - Instead, Dick persuaded Fritz to sail to the next platform and ask the crane driver to give them a hoist into the water.
- the part of a flag nearest the staff; the vertical dimension of a flag. - Visibility was always the main drawback to this medium, accentuated when steam propulsion permitted ships to ignore wind direction so that flag hoists might be end-on to those supposed to read them.
- a group of flags raised as a signal. - In addition, flag hoists and flashing light signals were sent to try and get the ship to halt.
- raise (something) by means of ropes and pulleys. - high overhead great cranes hoisted girders
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