How to spell hoist

Hoist is spelled H-O-I-S-T.

hear ithoist/hɔɪst/verbLong vowels

What it means: To lift something up.

In a sentence: Let's hoist the flag up the pole together!

Same family: hoisted, hoisting, hoist (noun), lift, raise. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Hoist comes from an earlier English form ‘hoise,’ meaning to lift, and originally was the past tense of that verb. Over time, ‘hoist’ became the main form and is now used both as a verb and a noun in engineering and construction.

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