Answer to "Hoisting machine" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CRANE which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2013.

Hoisting machine crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
CRANE	45 %	5
WINCH	27 %	5
JACK	18 %	4
PULLEY	9 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Hoisting machine

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• winch
• crane
• jack
• pulley
• indicator
• lift
• crab
• derrick
• luft
• windlass
• crabs
• gin

Crossword Answer definitions

CRANE noun

1. Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
2. Ardea herodias, the great blue heron.
3. A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
4. An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
5. A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
6. A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.

CRANE verb

1. To extend (one's neck).
2. To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane.
3. To pull up before a jump.

CRANE noun

1. The cranium.

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 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 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.

More clues leading to the result JACK

• Car lifter
• Jill's companion
• "Lost" protagonist
• Deli cheese
• With 61-Across, "Hawaii Five-O" star who led from behind?
• Royal flush card
• Modem-cable port
• "City Slickers" Oscar-winner Palance
• Bronco lifter, perhaps
• DJ Wolfman

More clues leading to the result PULLEY

• Simple machine
• One of the simple machines
• Kind of simple machine
• Block and tackle part
• Weight machine feature
• Hoisting machine
• Block and tackle.
• Weight-lifting apparatus.
• Small wheel.
• Lifting device