Definition of Hoisting

1. Verb. (present participle of hoist) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hoisting

1. hoist [v] - See also: hoist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoisting

hoisin sauce
hoising
hoist
hoist by one's own petard
hoist on one's own petard
hoist with one's own petard
hoistable
hoistaway
hoistaways
hoisted
hoisted by one's own petard
hoisted on one's own petard
hoisted with one's own petard
hoister
hoisters
hoisting (current term)
hoistings
hoistman
hoistmen
hoists
hoistway
hoistways
hoit
hoity-toitily
hoity-toity
hojillion
hojillions
hok
hoke
hoked

Literary usage of Hoisting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Structural Engineers' Handbook: Data for the Design and Construction of by Milo Smith Ketchum (1918)
"The inertia of a large, heavy sheave, however, with rapid hoisting may kink ... hoisting from mine shafts is commonly done in two compartments of the shaft ..."

2. Index of Mining Engineering Literature: Comprising an Index of Mining by Walter Richard Crane (1912)
"I. See also MINE EQUIPMENT and COST OF hoisting. Calculations for hoisting Engines See first volume of INDEX. Speed of hoisting TIME OCCUPIED IN WINDING ON ..."

3. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1910)
"By AI E E. LARGE ELECTRIC hoisting PLANTS BY WILFRED SYKES The development of large electrically-driven hoisting plants lias gone on simultaneously with ..."

4. Structural Engineers' Handbook: Data for the Design and Construction of by Milo Smith Ketchum (1914)
"The inertia of a large, ,vy sheave, however, with rapid hoisting may kink ... hoisting from mine shafts is commonly done in two compartments of the shaft at ..."

5. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1914)
"hoisting MINING detailed description of the development and types and matters related. ... hoisting hoisting Practice in Wisconsin Zinc Fields. WF Boericke. ..."

6. Index of Mining Engineering Literature: Comprising an Index of Mining by Walter Richard Crane (1909)
"CALCULATION OF hoisting ENGINES: Counterbalanced and non-counterbalanced. Mech. ... CALCULATION PERTAINING то hoisting: The Conical Drum. By FW Ewald. Coll. ..."

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