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  • Thumbnail for Hoist with his own petard
    "Hoist with his own petard" is a phrase from a speech in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet that has become proverbial. The phrase's meaning is that a...
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    A hoist is a device used for lifting or lowering a load by means of a drum or lift-wheel around which rope or chain wraps. It may be manually operated...
    9 KB (1,121 words) - 12:14, 6 December 2023
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    Fly system (section Hoists)
    and related devices within a theater that enables a stage crew to fly (hoist) quickly, quietly and safely components such as curtains, lights, scenery...
    62 KB (9,632 words) - 03:38, 17 June 2024
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    Patient lift (redirect from Patient hoist)
    A patient lift (patient hoist, jack hoist, Hoyer lift, or hydraulic lift) may be either a sling lift or a sit-to-stand lift. This is an assistive device...
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    the obstruction, allowing assault troops to enter. Shakespeare's phrase "hoist with his own petard"—meaning that one could be lifted (blown) upward by...
    6 KB (632 words) - 08:16, 20 April 2024
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    materials both vertically and horizontally, utilizing a system of a boom, hoist, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves for lifting and relocating heavy objects...
    77 KB (9,993 words) - 13:53, 30 August 2024
  • records, Captain William Kidd lent the runner and tackle from his ship for hoisting the stones. Anne, Queen of England, increased the parish's land holdings...
    45 KB (4,455 words) - 15:59, 31 August 2024
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    Klemheist knot (redirect from Climb hoist)
    button Diamond Fiador Friendship Ghiordes & Senneh Matthew Walker Turk's head Wall and crown (triple crown knot) Fishing  (angling) Angler's loop Arbor Bimini...
    3 KB (294 words) - 15:43, 3 July 2022
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    vertically on the wall behind the podium, the saffron stripe should be to the left of the onlookers facing the flag with the hoist cord at the top. The...
    60 KB (6,649 words) - 12:32, 29 August 2024
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    elsewhere as the Irish tricolour is a vertical tricolour of green (at the hoist), white and orange. The proportions of the flag are 1:2 (that is to say...
    48 KB (5,651 words) - 15:55, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lucarne
    exterior wall supports a hoist above doors on the floors below. The simplest lucarne is no more than the extension of a roof beyond a gable wall, with a...
    6 KB (564 words) - 13:00, 23 April 2024
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    Depending on the type of hoist (or winder) used, the top of the headframe will either house a hoist motor or a sheave wheel (with the hoist motor mounted on the...
    21 KB (2,979 words) - 23:38, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1 Wall Street
    1 Wall Street (also known as the Irving Trust Company Building, the Bank of New York Building, and the BNY Mellon Building) is a mostly-residential skyscraper...
    127 KB (12,083 words) - 02:58, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Overhead crane
    steel columns by means of brackets. The traveling bridge spans the gap. A hoist, the lifting component of a crane, travels along the bridge. If the bridge...
    13 KB (1,463 words) - 07:46, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Independence Day (India)
    Bismillah Khan. Independence Day is observed throughout India with flag-hoisting ceremonies, parades and cultural events. It is a national holiday in the...
    55 KB (4,999 words) - 11:00, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flag of China
    Communist Party (CCP), symbolized by the large star. The flag was first hoisted by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) on a pole overlooking Beijing's Tiananmen...
    66 KB (6,325 words) - 07:19, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Isis Downs Woolshed
    shearing machines and hydraulic power for the wool presses, bale dump and hoist. Power was transmitted via a power-board in the powerhouse and a distribution-board...
    19 KB (2,638 words) - 13:22, 1 July 2023
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    The Walls of Dubrovnik (Croatian: Dubrovačke gradske zidine) are a series of defensive stone walls surrounding the city of Dubrovnik in southern Croatia...
    51 KB (5,673 words) - 15:57, 28 August 2024
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    Every year on India's Independence Day (15 August), the prime minister hoists the Indian tricolour flag at the fort's main gate and delivers a nationally...
    60 KB (5,740 words) - 08:43, 27 August 2024
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    there were three stars with a red hoist, and black and white bars on the side instead of one star with a blue hoist and white and red bars. In 1822 during...
    37 KB (4,538 words) - 21:21, 9 August 2024
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