h'ist

I's gwine to h'ist it a wee bit higher and put more of de spiritual in it.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

Marse Adam pull out a big flat black pocket-book and gived me a shinplaster, and say: 'Jesse, ever time your basket h'ist de beam of de steelyards to 100, you gits a shinplaster.'

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

Two pullin 'on the sheet can allus h'ist the sail quicker than one.

Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

It looked like Jess had hit it off with Jud Brusie, a big, husky, clean-lookin 'chap up to the h'ist.

The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

But, first, you slip down cellar there an 'h'ist me up a bunch of beer kegs.

Prairie Flowers 1921

An 'after you've found it, an' got 'em all out of this jack-pot, you'll h'ist up on your hind legs an 'tell 'em the whole damn facts in the case, an' if Win jumps in an 'just naturally mops up hell with you, it'll be just what you've got comin' to you -- if he does

The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country 1921

I say put on a gang and h'ist it out, but "-- Jerry shot a glance at his partner --" people tell me I'm vi'lent an 'headstrong.

The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

And then I looked at the pulpit and thought of the story she told about the old Scotch minister who was too fat to get in at the door of it, and had to h'ist himself by his two hands over it, and then whispered to the other minister so that everybody heard him.

The Story Girl Lucy Maud 1911

Even if I 'd kilt a man and hid his corp, she 's the very one I' d git to help me to give me a h'ist with him into the river, she 's that good and swate.

Sowing Seeds in Danny 1908

Down he plumps it -- gives it a h'ist or two and then grabs it up.

Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909