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Toise vs Hoise - What's the difference?

toise | hoise |

As verbs the difference between toise and hoise

is that toise is while hoise is (obsolete except in dialects or after shakespeare) to hoist.

toise

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres
  • :* 1997': the greater its speed, the less visible it grows, until at around a Thousand '''Toises per Minute, it vanishes entirely — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon
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    hoise

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete except in dialects or after Shakespeare) to hoist
    • The scientist used the lever to hoise the cage.
  • (obsolete): to hoist, be raised

    • Derived terms

    * hoist with one's own petard