Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A dialectal variant of
hoise .
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- verb transitive To
hoist .
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Examples
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I remember that about the same time a friend started in to “heeze up my hope,” like the “sportsman with his cutty gun,” in the old song.
The Lady of the Lake 1810
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I remember that about the same time a friend started in to "heeze up my hope," like the "sportsman with his cutty gun," in the old song.
The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801
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Scott; there is small wonder that the success of his poems gave him, as he says, "such a _heeze_ as almost lifted him off his feet."
Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801
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He's sittin 'on his dowp yet, waitin' a dispensation o 'Providence that'll gie him a heeze somewhere else. "
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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