Tommy Finnegan was a little Irishman, with big staring eyes and a wild aspect, a "hoister" by trade, and badly cracked. ❋ Unknown (1906)
"hoister," working by steam, and able to pick up and swing a hundred tons, is used in handling the materials of the works. ❋ Various (N/A)
a wild aspect, a "hoister" by trade, and badly cracked. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
If children in high school must go directly into debt to attain an education to get a job, then there is nobody left to hoister debt onto. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He will no doubt have been very impressed in the second debate by the Tory Minister - in this case John Selwyn-Gummer rather than old trouser hoister and appalling defence barrister Baron Waddington - and all the talk of making the CEGB clean up their premises properly before handing them on. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Baxter Diaz (ph) was our hoister operator in the back. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The Wee Shite extricated the heavy weapon from around the dead man's head and pulled it over his own, then knelt down and searched the body, producing a pistol from an under-arm hoister. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (1997)
But he still tried to tug a weapon out of his shoulder hoister. ❋ Shatner, William (1996)
And so many rings would tell you when there was men on the skiff; this man the hoister would get that. ❋ Unknown (1976)
But this hoister would have a pulley way up here and a poppy head (we called it), and then it would run right around to the hoisting engine here. ❋ Unknown (1976)
In the distance wraiths of blue smoke falteringly bespoke the presence of people and cabins; on a cleared hill an object that might be horse or dog or man was silhouetted, small and vague; and in the farthest west the hoister of a deserted zinc mine cut up against the sky a little lonely way. ❋ Unknown (1905)
Although all Canaan had watched the building and rigging day by day, in Choke Gulch, the sight of the shed made the people almost hysterical, as though they had never seen the "plant" of the Canaan Mining and Development Company before, the shack office, the tool-house, the big proud mill shed, the tramway, the hoister. ❋ Unknown (1905)
Ahead of them Steering could see presently a sort of settlement; wooden sheds, wide and low; hoister shafts, tall and slim, on stilts; scaffolding; pipes; chimneys; tramways; surface railways. ❋ Unknown (1905)
Enthusiasm roared and whirred from the concentrating mill where wheels were turning and bands were slipping; where a tub, ore-laden, was jerking and clanking through the hoister shaft; where men on an upper platform were shovelling the dump from the tub into great crusher rolls; where the rolls were grinding and pounding, and the water was fashing and gurgling down the jigs. ❋ Unknown (1905)
If she were influenced by women spirits, either in the body or out of it, in the direction she steers, I might consent to be a mere sail-hoister for her; but as it is, she is wholly owned and dominated by men spirits and I spurn the control of the whole lot of them, just precisely the same when reflected through her woman's tongue and pen as if they spoke directly for themselves. ❋ Harper, Ida H (1899)
"Why, he's the pen-hoister who gets out the _Sphere_!" ❋ Unknown (1895)
If she were influenced by _women_ spirits, either in the body or out of it, in the direction she steers, I might consent to be a mere sail-hoister for her; but as it is, she is wholly owned and dominated by _men_ spirits and I spurn the control of the whole lot of them, just precisely the same when reflected through her woman's tongue and pen as if they spoke directly for themselves. ❋ Ida Husted Harper (1891)
The article, we will say, is written by a TYPICAL train hoister -- one without your education and powers of expression (bouquet) but intelligent enough to convey his ideas from HIS STANDPOINT -- not from John Wanamaker's. ❋ O. Henry (1886)
Nah he'd nivver tasted a hoister i 'all his life, it wor summat new, soa he went up to th' chap an axt for one. ❋ John Hartley (1877)
"Nah, aw willn't mak noa charge," th 'man answered, "yo've done weel, aw didn't think yo' could ha 'managed it, ther's three fowk tried at that hoister to-neet, an a dog beside, but it lickt 'em all. " ❋ John Hartley (1877)
1) Damn, check out the [hooter] hoister on that one!
2) Ready yet honey?
[Hang] on, I'm just [putting on] my hoister. ❋ Don Garb (2005)
Man you see [hoister] today??
He [burned] that bitch and then made it [rain]! ❋ StonerGang420gang (2018)
