The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LIFT which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 2020.
Hoist crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LIFT | 22 % | 4 |
| ELEVATE | 17 % | 7 |
| RAISE | 13 % | 5 |
| HEAVE | 11 % | 5 |
| UPRAISE | 8 % | 7 |
| CRANE | 6 % | 5 |
| HIKEUP | 3 % | 6 |
| BOOST | 3 % | 5 |
| HEFT | 3 % | 4 |
| LIFTUP | 3 % | 6 |
| DAVIT | 3 % | 5 |
| BLOCKANDTACKLE | 2 % | 14 |
| RAISEUP | 2 % | 7 |
| WINCH | 2 % | 5 |
| UPREAR | 2 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Hoist
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- lift
- wind
- run up
- winch
- lifting
- raise
- haul
- raising
- elevate
- elevator
- lifter
- elevating
Crossword Answer definitions
LIFT noun- An act of lifting or raising.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
- Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator.
- An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
- (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
- A thief.
- The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
- Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
- An improvement in mood.
- The amount or weight to be lifted.
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
- A rise; a degree of elevation.
- A liftgate.
- A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
- That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- To raise or rise.
- To steal.
- To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- To arrest (a person).
- To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- To cause to move upwards.
- To lift weights; to weight-lift.
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
- To bear; to support.
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
- To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
- Air.
- The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result LIFT
- Elevator
- Hoist
- Hitchhiker's need
- Gank
- Boost
- Harrods conveyance
- Ride
- Pump iron
- Hitchhiker's hope
- Heightening shoe device
More clues leading to the result ELEVATE
- Lift the spirits
- Raise
- Aggrandize
- Buoy up
- Get a raise?
- Idolize
- Use a jack on
- Move toward the top
- Upgrade
- Take higher
More clues leading to the result RAISE
- Bring up
- Bump
- Pay boost
- Post-review reward
- What you do with a good hand
- Worker's dream
- __ eyebrows (cause surprise)
- Increase
- Poker ploy
- Union demand
More clues leading to the result HEAVE
- Hurl
- Lift with force
- Toss
- Fling
- Throw with force
- Fling with force
- "Everyone push on three; 1, 2, 3!"
- "Ready and ... PUSH!"
- Upchuck
- Swell at sea
More clues leading to the result UPRAISE
More clues leading to the result CRANE
- Hoisting machine
- Large wading bird
- Wrecking-ball swinger
- Wading bird
- Frasier's last name
- Construction-site sight
- Wetlands whooper
- Classic origami piece
- Poet Hart __
- Egg-layer that whoops?
More clues leading to the result HIKEUP
More clues leading to the result BOOST
- Give a leg up
- Promote
- Battery charge
- Supercharge
- Upward push
- Shot in the 29-Down
- Raise
- Leg up
- Shove up from below
- Increase
More clues leading to the result HEFT
- Lift up
- Weight
- Significance
- Test the weight of
- Weightiness
- Hoist
- Pick up
- Hallmark of a tome
- Tome's attribute
- Carry with effort
More clues leading to the result LIFTUP
- Exhilarate
- Elevate
- Exalt
- Hoist
- Elate
- Erect
- ___ one's voice (cry aloud)
- "I will ___ mine eyes . . . ": Psa. 121:1
- Boost
- Hearten
More clues leading to the result DAVIT
- Ship's crane
- Lifeboat support
- Lifeboat crane
- Boat-lowering device
- Cranelike device for hoisting boats
- Lifeboat lowerer
- Cargo crane
- Lifeboat hoist
- Nautical crane
- Arm supporting a lifeboat.
More clues leading to the result BLOCKANDTACKLE
- Hoisting mechanism
- Hoisting contraption
- Device using pulleys
- Hoisting equipment
- Hoist
- Navy's anti-Army strategy?
- Hoisting apparatus
- Fishing equipment
- Name for a linemen's association?
- Pulley mechanism at the construction site?
More clues leading to the result RAISEUP
More clues leading to the result WINCH
- Hoisting device
- Anchor attachment
- It can give you a lift
- Cranking device
- Hoisting machine
- Stage-set mover
- A windlass.
- Windlass.
- Hoisting device.
- Machine for hauling.