Definitions

1. A hoist is a device used for lifting or lowering a load by means of a drum or lift-wheel around which rope or chain wraps. (Web site)
2. A hoist is a device often used on construction sites for the raising and lowering of heavy or cumbersome objects. (Web site)
3. Hoist is the part of the flag closest to the staff. (Web site)
4. Hoist is the name of two fictional characters in the Transformers universes. (Web site)
5. Hoist is a playable character in the PSP version of the 2007 Transformers video game. (Web site)

Hoist Fitness Systems

1. But that wasn't quite the question before the TTAB in In re Hoist Fitness Systems, Inc., Serial No. (Web site)

Gold Crescent

1. With Federation Ensign: Blue with gold crescent and eleven point gold star at the hoist. (Web site)

Hoist Containing

1. Blue over yellow swallow-tailed triangular pennant with white panel at hoist containing the greater coat of arms of arms. (Web site)

Nordic Flags

1. Scandinavian Cross a Saint George's Cross, off-centered towards the hoist, as seen in Scandinavian and Nordic flags. (Web site)

Cotton Hoist

1. The flag is made of wool bunting with a cotton hoist.

Inches Hoist

1. The flag for the United States Navy is 4 feet 4 inches hoist by 5 feet 6 inches fly, of dark blue material, with yellow fringe, 2½ inches wide.

Bowse

1. Bowse – To pull or hoist. (Web site)

Chain Hoist

1. Both the wire rope hoist and chain hoist have been in common use since the 1800s. (Web site)

Rear Admirals Fly

1. Vice Admirals and Rear Admirals fly a St George's cross differenced with one and two red balls in the hoist respectively. (Web site)

Hoist Edge

1. In Table B, "middle line" means a straight line, parallel with the hoist edge of the flag, and dividing the fly into two equal parts.
2. In Table A and Table B, "width of flag" means the measurement of the hoist edge of the flag. (Web site)

Hoist Quarter

1. There is a Union Jack in the upper hoist quarter, and the other quarters light blue. (Web site)

Flag Nearest

1. HOIST - (N.) The edge of a flag nearest the staff. (Web site)
2. The "hoist" is the part of the flag nearest to the pole. (Web site)

Hoist Corner

1. The Union Jack in the upper hoist corner is added to the 1850 flag. (Web site)
2. There is also a "Royal Standard (Air)" being a green-and-white striped flag with a miniature royal crown, coloured, in the upper hoist corner. (Web site)

Hoist Side

1. The flag of Liechtenstein consists of two equal horizontal bands of blue (top) and red with a gold ducal crown on the hoist side of the blue band.
2. Interestingly, the 1836 navy flag regulations show the flags of admirals with rectangular panels on the hoist side of the flag. (Web site)
3. The dragon is centered along the dividing line, facing away from the hoist side. (Web site)

Command

1. First Mate - The Second in command of a ship Flag hoist - A number of signal flags strung together to convey a message, e.g. (Web site)
2. First Mate – The Second in command of a ship Flag hoist – A number of signal flags strung together to convey a message, e.g. (Web site)

Regiment

1. The 1st battalion of any regiment carried the basic regimental colour without a union jack in the upper hoist. (Web site)

Way

1. So called because it is a common method used by bellringers to hoist up the bulk of the rope off the floor and out of the way.
2. From sticky tape to the Hills Hoist, inventions have changed and shaped the way we live.

Right

1. The hoist of the flag shown above should be at the viewer's right, as it is the case for all flags featuring Arabic writings (which read from right to left). (Web site)
2. The captain general of the sea of the Venetian Republic has right to hoist this ensign. (Web site)

Load

1. Controlled load lowering requires the use of the hoist drive motor, rather than the load hoist brake, to lower the load. (Web site)

Disk

1. Notice the white disk is closer to the hoist (like the national flag of Nazi Germany and unlike most modern neonazi flags, which have centered discs). (Web site)

Background

1. It is triangular in shape, 2 feet high at the hoist and tapering to 4 feet 6 inches in width, with a background of the main livery colour of the Chiefs arms. (Web site)

City

1. In the centre of the gold fly is a modified form of the arms of the City of Canberra, whilst the Southern Cross appears in the blue bar at the hoist.

Border

1. The border does not cover the canton, as usual, but it exists along the hoist (below the canton). (Web site)

Homage

1. The mold first used for Armada Hoist was remolded again into Transformers: Cybertron Longrack, a homage to Beast Wars Neo Longrack. (Web site)

Position

1. Position of a flag, pendant or hoist when it is not hauled close up but is a fathom or so short of being so.

Front

1. Whenever then national flag is painted on the side of an aeroplane, the hoist should be towards the front of the plane with the fly flowing aft. (Web site)

Star

1. The flag of Malo-les-Bains is red with a white star near the hoist and a yellow lower right quarter. (Web site)
2. And the five pointed star had always pointed to the hoist, as show some flag charts, and also Turkish charts of 1857 and 1905. (Web site)
3. Commonwealth Star – 7 pointed star, centred in lower hoist.

Order

1. A few basic terms are in order: Whatever a flag's shape, its vertical dimension is its hoist, and its horizontal extent is its fly. (Web site)
2. To raise to one's mouth in order to drink: hoist a few beers. (Web site)

Horizontal

1. The fly of the flag is a swallow tail, and the whole of the hoist is occupied by a horizontal clear anchor with a very thin cable running through the ring. (Web site)

Bottom

1. The flag's width is the measurement of the hoist edge of the flag (the distance from top to bottom).
2. To fold the Japanese flag, it is suggested to fold it from top to bottom twice, then fold the fly end about halfway towards the hoist side of the flag.

Canvas

1. It meant to hoist every bit of canvas the yards could carry. (Web site)

Sun

1. The distance from the centre of the sun cross to the hoist was also 4 parts. (Web site)
2. The red disc, which represents the sun, is calculated to be three-fifths of the total size of the hoist length.

Disc

1. The disc is set slightly toward the hoist so that when the flag is flying it will appear to be in the center. (Web site)

Point

1. At this point he was hoist by his own petard; the Emperor's paranoia, which he had so ably exploited for his own gain, was turned against him.
2. US Navy regulations provide in several bases for flying more than one flag at the same point of hoist simultaneously. (Web site)
3. The guard of the day and the band, if available, form near the point of hoist of the ensign.

Half

1. In any case, it seems that the canton is somewhat higher than half the hoist, whereas the length is less than half the fly.
2. The canton is square with each side equal to half the hoist. (Web site)

Corner

1. A replica of the George Cross now appears in the upper hoist corner of the Flag of Malta, outlined in red.
2. However no one really cares if there is a white or blue, whole or cut lozenge in the upper hoist corner. (Web site)
3. In the upper hoist corner is a white crescent and 12 white stars. (Web site)

Coffin

1. If it is desired that the Australian National Flag cover a casket or a coffin, the upper hoist should be draped over the left shoulder of the deceased.

Apartheid

1. The former Prime Minister and architect of apartheid, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, had a dream to hoist a "clean" flag over South Africa in the 1960s.

World

1. I'm not aware of any plain blue (at the hoist end) flags in the world so I don't expect there will be much confusion if the flag is furled on a windless day. (Web site)

Expiration

1. At the expiration of the first month of the voyage it was at one time customary to hoist in the rigging a canvas effigy of a horse. (Web site)

Device

1. Another such device was a crane, the mechane, which served to hoist a god or goddess on stage when they were supposed to arrive flying. (Web site)

Lifting

1. A hoist normally is used for lifting (near vertical) and a winch is normally used for pulling (near horizontal).

Function

1. Its function is to hoist and swing loads at various radii. (Web site)
2. The lift chain of a chain hoist is far larger than the liftwheel over which chain may function. (Web site)

Improper

1. When this ensign is displayed, it is improper to hoist a guest, owner absent, meal, cocktail, or novelty flag. (Web site)
2. The Canadian public would proudly hoist its identity; and the Canadian authorities would denounce either the flags or the public's use of them as improper. (Web site)

Smaller

1. In addition, the star in the hoist is smaller and is surrounded by scrolls and lettering.
2. Therefore, a high-performance chain hoist may be of significantly smaller physical size than a wire rope hoist rated at the same working load. (Web site)

Diameter

1. In other words in a flag of 12 units x 18 units the disc is 6 units in diameter and is centred at a point 7 units from the hoist. (Web site)
2. The center of the circle forming the crescent is half flag width from the hoist, with diameter of the same (i.e. (Web site)
3. The flag of the Vice-Admiral had in the lower hoist canton a dark green ball, the diameter of which was two-fifths of the vertical width of the canton. (Web site)

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