hoisters
Those who raise
Hoisters are people or devices that hoist—that lift or raise something, typically with mechanical assistance.
The term appears most often for equipment: The cargo hoisters moved containers from ship to dock.
It occasionally describes people engaged in lifting, or in older slang, thieves who lift goods from shops.
Lifter or wader
- derrickMovable boom apparatus
- winchDrum-and-cable lifting mechanism
- pulleyGrooved wheel for rope
- gantryOverhead spanning framework
forklift · jack · block-and-tackle · rigging · tackle · windlass · capstan · jib
Those who install cables
- operatorsThose who manage equipment
- longshoremenWaterfront cargo laborers
- stevedoresWorkers loading vessel cargo
- dockersPort cargo loaders
stagehands · ironworkers · deckhands · loadmasters · signalmen
Raising something heavy
- raisingLifting or nurturing
- elevatingLifting to higher level
- haulingTransporting heavy items
- heavingMoving up and down
pulling · rigging · slinging · suspending · loading · unloading · positioning · maneuvering
crane
Lifter or wader
gantry · forklift · jack · block-and-tackle · rigging · tackle · windlass · capstan · jib · boom
riggers
Those who install cables
- operatorsThose who manage equipment
- longshoremenWaterfront cargo laborers
- stevedoresWorkers loading vessel cargo
dockers · stagehands · ironworkers · deckhands · loadmasters · signalmen
lifting
Raising something heavy
heaving · pulling · rigging · slinging · suspending · loading · unloading · positioning · maneuvering · swinging
hoistersdroppers
Precise liquid dispensing tools
sinkers · depositors · descenders · downers
- hoisted by one's own petardHarmed by own plot
- hoisted on one's own petardHarmed by own scheme
- hoisted with one's own petardHarmed by own scheme