hoister

Tommy Finnegan was a little Irishman, with big staring eyes and a wild aspect, a "hoister" by trade, and badly cracked.

The Jungle 1906

"hoister," working by steam, and able to pick up and swing a hundred tons, is used in handling the materials of the works.

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

a wild aspect, a "hoister" by trade, and badly cracked.

The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

If children in high school must go directly into debt to attain an education to get a job, then there is nobody left to hoister debt onto.

Obama's Plan: Lipstick on Orwell 2009

He will no doubt have been very impressed in the second debate by the Tory Minister - in this case John Selwyn-Gummer rather than old trouser hoister and appalling defence barrister Baron Waddington - and all the talk of making the CEGB clean up their premises properly before handing them on.

The Saturday Spanker: Hedging Bets on Spodden 2008

Baxter Diaz (ph) was our hoister operator in the back.

CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2003 2003

The Wee Shite extricated the heavy weapon from around the dead man's head and pulled it over his own, then knelt down and searched the body, producing a pistol from an under-arm hoister.

Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997

But he still tried to tug a weapon out of his shoulder hoister.

Tek Kill Shatner, William 1996

And so many rings would tell you when there was men on the skiff; this man the hoister would get that.

Oral History Interview with Dock E. Hall, January 7, 1976. Interview H-0271. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1976

But this hoister would have a pulley way up here and a poppy head (we called it), and then it would run right around to the hoisting engine here.

Oral History Interview with Dock E. Hall, January 7, 1976. Interview H-0271. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1976