hoick
hoick up

He looked like I'd hoicked my knee right up into his family jewels.

She hoicked her dress up and climbed into the low stone dome.

He hoicked some mud out of an ear.

You just hoick yourselves up and then you do this.'

The hole was taller than it looked, and at the last minute we had to hoick ourselves onto our knees to reach the wall.

A moment later the man with the knuckles offered the bar stool triumphantly; the boy hoicked himself up onto it.

The grass caught his club-head and he hoicked his ball into one of those bunkers.

When the desk was in position I slipped my arms under Alkland's and hoicked him up.

I hoicked my automatic out of my shoulder holster and leaned over the edge of the window.

How ironical that it should be Cameron who has hoicked the ball out of the scrum and is apparently ready to run with it!

Razzaq tries to hoick it into a new continent and misses completely, almost pulling four different muscles in the process.

She bent to retrieve her offspring, who had been hanging over the edge of the wharf, peacefully exploring its underside, and hoicked him up onto one hip.

California was hoicked from Mexico on the rationale that if America didn't hoick it, France or England would.

First you take off the lid, darling--like so--then you reach your arm in and if you're lucky you hoick them out.

He hoicked up his pack, fastened the buckles, and adjusted the hood of his anorak over the pink pompoms of his balaclava.

He hoicked a slower ball from Bresnan high towards cow corner, and Hales charged round the boundary before holding on just a fraction inside the rope.

And, as the Library Policeman's hands closed on them, Sam hoicked one knee squarely into the Library Policeman's crotch.

The turret venue hoicked Basil Bunting from obscurity as a newspaper sub, and impressed Allen Ginsberg with the quality of Geordie graffiti.

Raina tries to hoick a length delivery from Broad into Camden Market, almost knocks himself off his feet in the process, and only gets a thin edge through to Kieswetter.

Overseers would attend the harvest with large carts, prong the tenth turnip, hoick up the tenth sheaf of wheat, bucket out the tenth gallon of ale, and so forth.

Sometimes the blockage may be visible from the top of the downpipe and can be hoicked out from the top with a length of stiff wire - try a straightened-out coat hanger.

He hoicked Jemmy up onto his shoulder like a bundle of laundry and squatted down, poking at the ground in search of the watch chain, which Jemmy had evidently hurled into the darkness.

For example, in the last decade of the 15th century Thomas More, at a very early age, was enrolled at Oxford for a short time, but was hoicked out abruptly by his father, who sent him to London to study law.

He was amused to find himself surrounded by the dead mackerel of his own catch, and held one aloft, waving and shouting to his crew that if they didn't hoick him out good and quick, there'd be no free ale in Mother Russell's that night.

He hoicked up his pack, fastened the buckles, and adjusted the hood of his anorak over the pink pompoms of his balaclava.

Overseers would attend the harvest with large carts, prong the tenth turnip, hoick up the tenth sheaf of wheat, bucket out the tenth gallon of ale, and so forth.