Tommy Finnegan was a little Irishman, with big staring eyes and a wild aspect, a "hoister" by trade, and badly cracked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jungle] Reference

A wild aspect, a "hoister" by trade, and badly cracked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jungle] Reference

"hoister," working by steam, and able to pick up and swing a hundred tons, is used in handling the materials of the works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference

Baxter Diaz (ph) was our hoister operator in the back.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2003] Reference

But he still tried to tug a weapon out of his shoulder hoister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tek Kill]

And so many rings would tell you when there was men on the skiff; this man the hoister would get that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Dock E. Hall, January 7, 1976. Interview H-0271. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's Plan: Lipstick on Orwell] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country of the Blind]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saturday Spanker: Hedging Bets on Spodden] Reference

Having spent much time flying lately, I can attest to being seated to more than one panniculus hoister.    From Wordnik.com.  [PegasusNews.com stories] Reference

Far away in Illinois, a near relative of the painter and hoister of the "bear flag" is a struggling lawyer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect] Reference

When it came time to "dive," he sort of fluttered down to Earth before the hoister of his harness whisked him away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

Mark, however, was not very long employed in this laborious task, for the overseer, hearing of his talent, appointed him to the duty of "crane-hoister.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mines and its Wonders] Reference

The girls and the two school men-servants came in, one of the latter being the obnoxious hoister, and they were permitted to perform their office in a dead silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference

The putters were dragging or pushing the baskets towards a main road, where they were received by the "crane-hoister," who, with his crane, lifted them on the rolley-wagons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sally of Missouri] Reference

Good play in the loose and a hoister at lineout time are nice to have, but Declan Kidney doesn't need reminding that a poor scrum on our 22 in the final 10 minutes of a tight World Cup semi-final on current form would more than likely cost us the game.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roar - Your Sports Opinion] Reference

There are different cranes on the rolley-ways, near the side cuttings, and each is under charge of a lad, called a crane-hoister, whose business is to hoist the baskets brought to him by the putters on to the rolleys, and to chalk down the number he cranes on a board.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Work of Susan B Anthony 01]

Left Circle Eccentric Trainer and Shell-hoister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

Rear Circle Eccentric Trainer and Shell-hoister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

Right Circle Eccentric Trainer and Shell-hoister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference