Rhode Island, hoists a flag with the anchor device, 22.
Two styles of farm elevatinghoists are shown in this illustration.
We had fine hoists for hail and farewell; tragic turn of the colours for a serious emergency, hurried two-flag sets for urgent calls, leisurely symbols of three for finished periods.
Under his direction the coalmen set to work at their hoistsand stages and soon have the baskets swinging with loads from the open hatchways.
She sits and looks on while he hoists the flag half-mast high.
The abolition of all four-flag hoists for general signals will very greatly increase the Rapidity with which communication can be held by means of the International Code of Signals.
In making a signal, a ship first hoists her ensign with the code flag under it, and if necessary the distinguishing signal of the vessel or station with which she desires to communicate.
The first ship then hoists her own distinguishing signal, consisting of the four letters appropriated to her name, and then proceeds with the signal she wishes to make.
On seeing this signal the ship (or station) addressed then hoists the "Answering Pendant" (i.
It is, however, not struck when a captain hoists a Senior Officer's pendant.
Indeed, the hoists are ingeniously contrived so that in whatever position a gun may be the hoist stops exactly opposite the breech, or opening at the back of the gun through which it is loaded.
Shells and cartridges alike pass up as required by means of hoists right to the guns.
The hoists are worked by hydraulic power or electricity, and in most cases by both, arrangements being made so that either can be used at will, thus serving as alternatives in case either should get out of order.
The Spider, meanwhile, embracing the whole circumference of the enclosure with her long legs, hoists herself a little upon the slippery surface and removes herself as far as possible from her adversary.
Soon after, she hoists him, fastened by a line to her spinneret, and drags him to her hiding-place, where a long banquet will be held.
The ship in which the admiral hoists his flag; whatever the rank of the commander be; all the lieutenants take rank before their class in other ships.
When a ship hoists her ensign upside down it is a signal of distress or of mourning.
A light triangular or quadrilateral sail, the head being extended on a small gaff which hoists on the top-mast, and the foot on the lower gaff.
An admiral assuming his command "hoists his flag," and is saluted with a definite number of guns by all vessels present.
To-day I was walking along the road that leads up the ever-wonderful Anaconda Hill--a place of stones and sand-wastes and hoists and scaffoldings and mines with ten thousand digging men thousands of feet down in their metallic bowels.
The breeze, too, blew the cordite smoke down the hoists when the breeches of the guns were opened to reload, and made the air and stench more disagreeable than ever.
Signal hoists fluttered and were hauled down, and soon the three big ships, with the little trawlers clustered at a respectful distance, lay with engines stopped.
A few seconds later a very cheery voice bawled down one of the starboard hoists to say that shells had come into the mess deck and burst there.
Isak hoists and heaves with his lever, and the stone moves, but no more.
Brede hoists him up without a word, and carries him.
Whenever a ship breaks down at sea she hoists three great black disks into her rigging.
He hoists aloft his silken sail, Striped gold on a scarlet ground Nor ever once does he strike it again Till he comes to Uppsaland.
She hoists aloft her silken sail, Striped gold on a scarlet ground; Nor ever once does she strike it again Till she reaches far Uppland.
She hoists aloft her silken sail, Striped gold on a scarlet ground, Nor ever once does she strike it again Till she comes to Isan's Land.
She hoists aloft her silken sail, (The like will scarce be found) Nor ever once does she strike it again Till she comes to Isan's ground.
Two minutes of this and then men shouted hoarsely down the hoists for more ammunition, the voice-pipe bells tinkled, and the order came down to pass up only common shell (shell with thin walls and a large bursting charge).
Then a man slid down one of the starboard hoists and crawled aft to Dr.
Men flew backwards and forwards, the dust thickened again, the heat and the mugginess were horrid, and every now and again some of the powder smoke would be blown down the hoists and make those stifling ammunition passages darker still.
The writer 'violates' Netherland territory and hoists the Company's flag on the south bank of the Siboku, 1883.
It was a sweltering July afternoon in Smelter City, the air athrob with the derricks and the trucks and the cranes and the pulleys and the steam hoists and the cable car tramway run up and down the face of Coal Hill by natural gravitation.
Wall, 'twas in the early days 'fore we had steam hoists an' things.
In a sense it is a national flag, for the sovereign hoists it when afloat in conjunction with the royal standard and the Union Jack.
A ship hoistsit to denote that there are some on board suffering from yellow fever, cholera or some such infectious malady, and it remains hoisted until she has received quarantine.
Cables were slipped, fires scattered and heaped high with coal, ammunition-hoists handled, and garments flung aside as the men stripped for action.
And an Admiral of the Fleet hoists the Union at the main top-gallant-masthead.
When a ship has surrendered and is taken possession of, the captor hoists his ensign over that of the enemy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
