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▪ I. hoick, n. colloq.|hɔɪk|
Also hoik.
[See next.]
a. Rowing. (See quot. 1898.)
b. Aeronaut. A jerky pull (on the stick). (Cf. hoick v.1 2.)
c. Cricket. A jerky, hoisted shot.
1898Encycl. Sport II. 297/1 Hoick, a jerk with the arms at the beginning or end of the stroke, which prevents a steady leg drive from the stretcher. 1907Daily Chron. 8 Mar. 9/1 Cambridge sacrifice everything to a terrible hoick at the finish. 1946A. Phelps I couldn't care Less vi. 43 The Magister responded to my wild hoik on the stick and came off. 1954A. G. Moyes Austral. Batsmen xii. 164 He..gets a lot of runs with a stroke which Cheetham called a ‘hoik’. 1956R. Alston Test Commentary ix. 60 Lindwall's one scoring stroke was an ungainly ‘hoick’ for six.
▪ II. hoick, v.1 slang or colloq.|hɔɪk|
Also hoik.
[Perhaps orig. a local variant of hike v.]
1. trans. To lift up or hoist, often with a jerk or rapid movement. Also to haul or turn out. Also transf. and fig.
1898G. Nickalls in W. A. Morgan ‘House’ on Sport 346 Until the finish, which, to be made really effective, must be honestly hoicked out. 1908Belloc On Nothing 136 Beneath him the sand sloped down until it met the sea... Every now and then Mahmoud would force a son or domestic of his to go down and hoick out a pearl. 1911Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 146/1 The patient Captain Croucher hoicked her from destruction in the nick of time. 1914W. J. Locke Fort. Youth i. 20 He hoicked a bit of his shirt⁓tail from his breeches and proceeded to knot the cornelian heart secure therein. 1916J. Buchan Greenmantle ii. 24, I had got myself adjusted to this trench business... And now you have hoicked me out. 1918‘Q’ Foe-Farrell vi, I dashed around to the rear of the cab, collared Farrell, and hoicked him inboard. 1930Blunden De Bello Germanico iii. 28 His cue to ‘hoik out’ the unwary scrimshankers. 1931C. Mackenzie Buttercups & Daisies v, Blackbirds and thrushes hoicking worms out of the moist ground. 1934G. B. Shaw Too True to be Good ii. 49 The noise stops; and the bicyclist, having hoiked his machine up on to its stand..comes past the pavilion. 1952Wodehouse Pigs have Wings v. 99 ‘Mr. Galahad is in the amber drawing⁓room.’..‘Then go and hoik him out of it.’ 1954W. Faulkner Fable (1955) 66 No need for them to hunt down and hoick out and execute a mere thirteen men. 1962M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 51 This process..hoicks societies of the world of ‘sacred’ or cosmic space and time into the detribalized or ‘profane’ space and time of civilized and pragmatic man. 1972Country Life 9 Mar. 548/3 Is there anything conceivably related to the art of fly fishing in hoicking out trout that have had no chance to live a natural life?
2. To force (an aeroplane) to climb steeply to a higher level. Also intr., to jerk oneself out of, etc.
a1918J. T. B. McCudden Five Yrs. R.F.C. (1919) 287 He..hoicked out of the dive with such vim that three wing-tips at once collapsed. 1919Glasgow Herald 19 Dec. 10 The pilot yanks the joystick to hoick her up. 1928Daily Mail 7 May 6/4 Hoiking.—Sweeping suddenly to avoid an obstacle or a dangerous approach to earth.
▪ III. hoick, v.2
[Prob. a dial. variant of hawk v.3]
= hawk v.3 Hence ˈhoicking vbl. n.
1926A. Huxley Essays New & Old 5 These frightful hoickings in the throat. 1926― Jesting Pilate i. 43 The holy man woke up and began to hoick and spit. |