hoister

1. 1.

   an operator of a hoist

   Broaderoperator

Other forms of hoister

plural

hoisters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hoister

What does hoister mean?

hoister means "an operator of a hoist".

How many syllables are in hoister?

hoister has 2 syllables: hoi-ster. The stress falls on "hoi".

Is hoister a common word?

hoister is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.