Hoise
Hoise
hoiz: The older form of hoist (Old English, hoise), to raise, to lift, and is the translation of eparo, to lift up: they … hoised up the mainsail to the wind (Act 27:40). the Revised Version (British and American) and hoisting up the foresail to the wind; Wycliff has lefte up Tyndale hoysed up.