"hoister" meaning in All languages combined

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        "1": "en",
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  "etymology_text": "hoist + -er",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hoisters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick",
          "text": "[…] putting one foot into it, so as the better to secure his slippery hand-hold on the whip itself, the hoisters ran him high up to the top of the head, almost before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom.",
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        "One who, or that which, hoists or lifts."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1931, The Police Journal, volume 4, page 504",
          "text": "In order better to appreciate the use of argot among thieves, a visit to a few public bars of the third-class public houses of Kennington or in the immediate vicinity of the Elephant and Castle would prove of great value, as hoisters, whizzers, tea-leaves, con-heads, broadsmen and brass nobs […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime?, page 92",
          "text": "Like their friends the \"draggers,\" the \"hoisters\" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]",
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        "A thief."
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        "(UK, slang) A thief."
      ],
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  "word": "hoister"
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  "etymology_text": "hoist + -er",
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          "ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick",
          "text": "[…] putting one foot into it, so as the better to secure his slippery hand-hold on the whip itself, the hoisters ran him high up to the top of the head, almost before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom.",
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        }
      ],
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        "One who, or that which, hoists or lifts."
      ],
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          "hoist"
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          "ref": "1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime?, page 92",
          "text": "Like their friends the \"draggers,\" the \"hoisters\" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]",
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        "A thief."
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        "(UK, slang) A thief."
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