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  • noun Plural form of hoister.

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Examples

  • There were the "hoisters," as they were called, whose task it was to press the lever which lifted the dead cattle off the floor.

    The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

  • There were the "hoisters," as they were called, whose task it was to press the lever which lifted the dead cattle off the floor.

    The Jungle 1906

  • Again the white-flame machines went to work and cut the metal into removable sections, and hoisters and haulers came and removed them.

    "He Who Shrank" by Henry Hasse, part 7 Johnny Pez 2010

  • Again the white-flame machines went to work and cut the metal into removable sections, and hoisters and haulers came and removed them.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Johnny Pez 2010

  • “Swing the bucket this way!” and putting one foot into it, so as the better to secure his slippery hand-hold on the whip itself the hoisters ran him high up to the top of the head, almost before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • As soon as the heavy rains begin and the machinery cannot work, it is necessary to make big mobilizations, seek hoisters, and so forth, in order to achieve the sugarcane goals.

    CLOSING SESSION OF SUGAR WORKERS CONGRESS 1980

  • From 1970 to now, with the collecting and sugarcane processing stations, the cane hoisters and the machinery, we have saved around 220,000 canecutters, around 220,000 canecutters. [applause]

    CASTRO SPEEKS AT MAIN COMMERATION OF BUILDERS DA 1978

  • It is true also that throughout the spring, trucks and hoisters were used in planting.

    12TH ANNIVERSARY OF ATTACK ON PRESIDENTIAL PALAC 1969

  • The Sunday papers gave a lurid account of the sentiment of the Carpenters 'Union and its sympathetic attitude toward the striking hoisters.

    The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

  • Reading, the Western, and the Delaware Road -- all run their cars by continuous rails to the wharves of Warner & Co., where freight is transferred from cars to steamers with extreme rapidity, by four steam-hoisters placed on the ground for the purpose.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

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