[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance:to hoist a flag; to hoist the mainsail.Synonyms: elevate Antonyms: lower", "to raise to one's lips and drink; drink (especially beer or whiskey) with gusto:Let's go hoist a few beers.", "Archaic.a simple past tense and past participle of hoise ."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["an apparatus for hoisting, as a block and tackle, a derrick, or a crane.", "act of hoisting; a lift:Give that sofa a hoist at your end.", "Nautical.the vertical dimension amidships of any square sail that is hoisted with a yard.Compare drop(def31) drop(def31).the distance between the hoisted and the lowered position of such a yard.the dimension of a fore-and-aft sail along the luff.a number of flags raised together as a signal.", "the vertical dimension amidships of any square sail that is hoisted with a yard.Compare drop(def31) drop(def31).", "the distance between the hoisted and the lowered position of such a yard.", "the dimension of a fore-and-aft sail along the luff.", "a number of flags raised together as a signal.", "(on a flag)the vertical dimension as flown from a vertical staff.the edge running next to the staff.Compare fly2(def30b) fly2(def30b).", "the vertical dimension as flown from a vertical staff.", "the edge running next to the staff.Compare fly2(def30b) fly2(def30b)."]}]