transitive. To draw up or hoist with a winch or the like: cf. 19.

To haul or hoist by turning a winch, windlass, or the like, around which a rope or chain is passed. gen.

transitive. To place in, or secure with, a sling or slings in order to admit of or facilitate hoisting or lowering; to raise up or let down by means…

transitive. To hoist or lower with a crane, or with similar apparatus.

transitive. To raise aloft by means of a rope or pulley and tackle, or by other mechanical appliance. In other than nautical use.

transitive. To raise or hoist with or as with a pulley. Also figurative.

To raise or hoist with tackle. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To fasten by means of, or after the manner of, a lewis.

transitive. dialect (a) to hoist or raise with or as with a teagle; = tackle, v. 2; (b) to catch birds with a teagle (see sense 2).

transitive. To raise or lift (an object, esp. a vehicle) with a jack (Jack, n.2 11).

transitive. To hoist or haul with a windlass.

transitive. To draw up by means of a ‘whorl’ or pulley. local.

transitive. To alter the inclination of (the jib of a crane or derrick); to raise or lower in a vertical plane. Also with adverbs, as luff in, to…