Hoisters

There were the "hoisters," as they were called, whose task it was to press the lever which lifted the dead cattle off the floor. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

Again the white-flame machines went to work and cut the metal into removable sections, and hoisters and haulers came and removed them. ❋ Johnny Pez (2010)

“Swing the bucket this way!” and putting one foot into it, so as the better to secure his slippery hand-hold on the whip itself the hoisters ran him high up to the top of the head, almost before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom. ❋ Unknown (2002)

As soon as the heavy rains begin and the machinery cannot work, it is necessary to make big mobilizations, seek hoisters, and so forth, in order to achieve the sugarcane goals. ❋ Unknown (1980)

From 1970 to now, with the collecting and sugarcane processing stations, the cane hoisters and the machinery, we have saved around 220,000 canecutters, around 220,000 canecutters. [applause] ❋ Unknown (1978)

It is true also that throughout the spring, trucks and hoisters were used in planting. ❋ Unknown (1969)

The Sunday papers gave a lurid account of the sentiment of the Carpenters 'Union and its sympathetic attitude toward the striking hoisters. ❋ John Williams Streeter (N/A)

Reading, the Western, and the Delaware Road -- all run their cars by continuous rails to the wharves of Warner & Co., where freight is transferred from cars to steamers with extreme rapidity, by four steam-hoisters placed on the ground for the purpose. ❋ Various (N/A)

They ran along upon a rafter, peering down through the damp and the steam; and as old Durham's architects had not built the killing room for the convenience of the hoisters, at every few feet they would have to stoop under a beam, say four feet above the one they ran on; which got them into the habit of stooping, so that in a few years they would be walking like chimpanzees. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

It was a strong, well-built piece of baggage, indeed; but to be cooped up in it, at the mercy of baggageman and truckman, hoisters and stewards -- the thought was staggering. ❋ Paul Dickey (1909)

They could hear the yeo-yeo! of the sail-hoisters at work on the big mainsail abaft, and wondered how on earth she was going to be got clear with so little sea-way and the wind dead in shore. ❋ William Frend De Morgan (1878)

"Swing the bucket this way!" and putting one foot into it, so as the better to secure his slippery hand-hold on the whip itself, the hoisters ran him high up to the top of the head, almost before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

"Swing the bucket this way!" and putting one foot into it, so as the better to secure his slippery hand-hold on the whip itself the hoisters ran him high up to the top of the head, almost before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

'Swing the bucket this way!' and putting one foot into it, so as the better to secure his slippery hand-hold on the whip itself, the hoisters ran him high up to the top of the head, almost before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom. ❋ Unknown (1851)

"Anybody seen anything of David Adams?" he asked of the different gangs of pushers, hoisters, or thrusters he met with their trucks of coal as they came out of the passages and holes on all sides, some so low that they had to stoop down till their heads were no higher than the trucks. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

"Your company is consistently losing potential clients due to fast Internet access and easy handling of peer-to-peer networks, one-click hoisters, streaming services and FTP servers creating more digital pirates every day," reads the company's website. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"I hope so, but there is a hoisters 'strike on in the city, and the carpenters threaten to go out in sympathy. ❋ John Williams Streeter (N/A)