Word Meanings - HOISTAWAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mechanical lift. See Elevator.

Related words: (words related to HOISTAWAY)

• ELEVATOR
  One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as: A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. A cage or platform and the hoisting
• MECHANICAL
  1. Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical
• MECHANICALLY
  In a mechanical manner.
• ELEVATORY
  Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces.
• MECHANICALIZE
  To cause to become mechanical.
• MECHANICALNESS
  The state or quality of being mechanical.
• AEROMECHANIC; AEROMECHANICAL
  Of or pert. to aëromechanics.
• IMMECHANICAL
  Not mechanical. Cheyne. -- Im"me*chan"ic*al*ly, adv.
• PHOTOMECHANICAL
  Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving.