He gets one and off strike with a shot that can only de described as a hoick, all bottom hand from outside off to mid-on. From Wordnik.com. [England v Pakistan – as it happened!] Reference
Only then can it be human to bare-faced, hoick ourselves for the clear. From Wordnik.com. [Daljit Nagra] Reference
And just as I wrote that Strauss dances down the pitch to Shoaib and whacks him back over his head with a hoick. From Wordnik.com. [England v Pakistan – as it happened!] Reference
Saturninus took his own decision; in the time-honored move, he bent to hoick up his opponent's helmet by the chin, exposing his throat. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
Then I sorted the buggy strap that goes between the legs so that when I got him in I could hoick it up and prevent him wriggling out the bottom step two. From Wordnik.com. [Interfering busybodies R Us] Reference
I can't say Amazon has lost my business, because we have had some serious failures of shipments from the UK Dutch parcel delivery service problem and I don't always have time to hoick into Amsterdam on the off-chance that Waterstone's or the American Book Center will have the title I want. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: Amazon & Macmillan] Reference
Paul Bodin to hoick that penalty on to the crossbar in order to make the finals. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Haddin's hitting now - again a step to the left and then a hoick over the covers. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
But I'll be waiting to be summoned, and I'll come like a shot as soon as you hoick me out. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Standfast] Reference
Raina tried to hoick and Tendulkar attempted a paddle shot over fine-leg inside the circle. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
Jayasuriya tried a big hoick across the line but was taken by Vinay Kumar, running in at the deep midwicket boundary. From Wordnik.com. [rediff.com] Reference
A header back on the far post was met with a horrid defensive hoick and Lucho was close in to steer his shot into the net. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
A long hopeful hoick / clearance from deep inside Liverpool territory which found centre backs out of position and stretched. From Wordnik.com. [Soccer Blogs - latest posts] Reference
White, though, goes all agricultural and misses with a cow corner hoick off Yardy that would have cleared the Tavern if he'd got hold of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Overseers would attend the harvest with large carts, prong the tenth turnip, hoick up the tenth sheaf of wheat, bucket out the tenth gallon of ale, and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [First and Last] Reference
Paine gets off the mark with a squirt off the inside wdge behind square leg and then Watson pulls him off the front foot with a baseball hoick over midwicket for four. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
I know otherwise quite reasonable people who, if they could get away with expectorating every time that they saw an Earth Hour poster, would hoick for all they were worth. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
Pascal is not a batsman, but his dismissal in both innings - attempting a one-legged Caribbean style hoick - was a comical, yet depressing sight if you were a West Indies supporter. From Wordnik.com. [Cricinfo news from Cricinfo] Reference
The idea was born after fans of the hipster wanted their trousers to go lower than the hips but also wanted to avoid the need for an unladylike hoick as they strutted down the street. From Wordnik.com. [Home] Reference
Every now and then Mahmoud would force a son or domestic of his to go down and hoick out a pearl, and this pearl he would exchange for something that he absolutely needed, such as a new tent or a new camel, and then he went on living the way he had been living before. From Wordnik.com. [On Nothing and Kindred Subjects] Reference
But with just two wickets still standing and a deficit of 89 still to be surmounted, he was eventually extracted by JP Duminy's first delivery of the day - a top-edged hoick off an ignominious long-hop, that flew at a comfortable height straight to Morkel at deep square leg. From Wordnik.com. [Cricinfo news from Cricinfo] Reference
"We'll hoick him up to the store, Bill, if you're ready?. From Wordnik.com. [News from the Duchy] Reference
Just hoick it up!. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Clusterflock: Do you do bad things at work? | clusterflock] Reference
20th-century family of projects to hoick humanity out of its ancestral scarcity. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
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