Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A dialectal variant of hoise.

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  • verb transitive To hoist.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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