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Hiked vs Hoiked - What's the difference?

hiked | hoiked |

As verbs the difference between hiked and hoiked

is that hiked is past tense of hike while hoiked is past tense of hoik.

hiked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (hike)

  • hike

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long walk.
  • An abrupt increase.
  • The tenants were not happy with the rent hike .
  • (American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.
  • A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher
  • Verb

    (hik)
  • To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.
  • Don't forget to bring the map when we go hiking tomorrow.
  • To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
  • (American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
  • (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
  • To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
  • She hiked her skirt up.

    Synonyms

    * (to lean to the windward side) lean out, sit out

    Derived terms

    * hiker * hiking

    See also

    * hitchhike * hitchhiker * take a hike ----

    hoiked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hoik)

  • hoik

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cricket) a wild hook shot played without style
  • (NZ) spittle.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To play such a shot.
  • To lift something up wildly.
  • To throw something out.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VIII , passage=“What are your plans now?” “I propose to hoik you out of that chair and seat myself in it and take that book, the early chapters of which I found most gripping, and start catching up with my reading and try to forget.”}}
  • (NZ) to spit.