Hoist is valid Scrabble Word

Is hoist a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is hoist valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
7 points in WWF

Definitions for HOIST in dictionary:

VERB:

to raise with tackle
raise (something) by means of ropes and pulleys
raise or haul up
raise or lift up
To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight.
raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
move from one place to another by lifting

PREPOSITION:

Hoisted.

NOUN:

an act of raising or lifting something.
an apparatus for lifting or raising something

an act of increasing something
the part of a flag nearest the staff.
a group of flags raised as a signal.
That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.
The act of hoisting; a lift.
The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff.
The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.
lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects
device for lifting things

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to haul up by some mechanical means

Words related to HOIST

heeze17 hoise8 hoisted11 hoister10 hoisters11 hoisting12 hoistings13 hoists9

Words that contain HOIST

hoists9 echoist12 hoisted11 hoister10 uphoist12 echoists13 hoisters11 hoisting12 hoistman13 hoistmen13 hoistway17 uphoists13 hoistings13 hoistways18 uphoisted15 uphoisting16

How to use HOIST in a sentence

Look here, Hardy, do you lie down and look over the edge, and when you hear me yell, let them hoist away.
We must make some kind of a distress signal and hoist it where it will be seen.
If a porter can get assistance to hoist it to the top of his head he will stagger along under any burden all right.
The deck was astir, and when the command was given to hoist the sails it was obeyed with an uneasy alacrity.
Come back, and let Master Dudley hoist her up to me.
He carried with him to the boat a camp blanket which he intended to hoist as a sail.
In half-masting a flag, you first hoist it in a bundle to the masthead, break it out there, and thence lower it to the position at which you make fast.
Then the admiral will hoist, lower, set or haul up the sail he would have the ship that leads the van do.
Hoist the signal for quarantine, and that you are charged with dispatches.
These arrangements were found much quicker and cheaper than to hoist the wheels up, as is usually done.

It grew increasingly difficult for him alone to hoist the logs into place.
The proper course would have been to hoist the flag at half-mast, and to fire minute guns, in token of the grief of the pioneers for the death of freedom.
I gad, every chance you get you hoist me on your hip and slam the life out of me.
Sprague was leaving her, in order to hoist his flag on board a third ship, and return to the charge, when a shot, which had passed through the St.
No one is to be allowed to hoist the Geneva flag unless the house contains at least six beds for wounded.
If thou dost act accordingly and hoist the standard of the Covenant, Paris shall burst into flame.
To catch these Avery would anchor off a village and hoist English colours.
Men had alternately to hoist and pull each other up under fire, and finally to expel the enemy from the summits in hand-to-hand fighting.
He had to work quickly as the fumes were very strong, but he managed to hoist Washington up so that Bill and Tom, from outside, could take hold of him.
We hoist our heads with no precaution above the crumbled parapet.
In some cases two vaqueros could hoist all the water that accumulated in three wells.
It seemed to be ingenuous, and proper to hoist great burdens.
Now put your arm behind the pillows and give me a hoist.
Zeke had a hard time climbing out of the prospect hole and getting back to camp, but he got there and sent some men up to hoist the bear to the surface.
The first time she had, drifted out into the main channel, and they only had time to hoist sail and get her under way.

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