| 单词 |
hoisting |
| 释义 |
hoisting, vbl. n.|ˈhɔɪstɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb hoist: raising, lifting, elevation. lit. and fig.
1641Milton Reform. ii. (1851) 40 He was the subversion and fall of that Monarchy which was the hoisting of him. 1796Burke Regic. Peace i. Wks. VIII. 189 The lowering or the hoisting of a sail. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. V. 300 The criminal..at a sign of the Judge was hauled up with a frightful wrench; and then violently let fall to the ground. This was called, in the common phrase, hoisting.
b. attrib. and Comb., as hoisting-apparatus, hoisting-bridge, hoisting-crab, hoisting-engine, hoisting-jack, hoisting-line, hoisting-machine, hoisting-rope, hoisting-stage, hoisting-tackle, etc.
1692Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. i. xiv. 64 A hoistinglin for Pennant. 1751C. Labelye Westm. Br. 84 The Centers and hoisting Stage were compleated. 1852–61Archit. Publ. Soc. Dict. IV. 63, Hoisting bridge..lately employed in canal and railway works, where the platform is required to be raised so as to allow a barge or train to pass underneath. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Hoisting-jack, a contrivance by which hand-power is applied to lifting an object by working a screw or lever. 1876Engineering XXI. 389 The hoisting rope is led to a drum on the second shaft, which we shall call the hoisting shaft. 1889E. Matheson Aid Bk. Engin. Enterp. (ed. 2) 725 An ordinary hoisting-crab or winch for working by hand. |
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