Hoise
Verb [hoyz]
Lift, raise, especially to raise into position by or as if by means of tackle.
You'll rarely encounter hoise in any of its regular forms: hoise, hoised, or hoising. But a variant of its past participle shows up fairly frequently as part of a set expression. That variant past participle is hoist. The expression is hoist with (or by) one's own petard, which means victimized or hurt by one's own scheme. This phrase owes it popularity to Shakespeare's Hamlet."For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petar(d)." A petard is a medieval explosive.
Oh, and if you're playing scrabble this word is worth 7 points! How about that.
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I enjoy learning new words so I'll adopt hoise for my Scrabble game. Hoist is a respectable word on its own though—a noun or verb. In fact, I have a ceiling hoist in my garage to remove the hard top from my convertible. Looking forward to next month's word.
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