hoick

English

Noun

hoick (plural hoicks)

  1. Alternative spelling of hoik.

Verb

hoick (third-person singular simple present hoicks, present participle hoicking, simple past and past participle hoicked)

  1. Alternative spelling of hoik.
    • 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
      As he tried to pass between a man in red and a man in blue, two pole-ends were pushed under his belly in an attempt to hoick him back. But Tarka slipped off the shillet-burnished iron and broke the stickle.
    • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 69:
      I smashed my way to 70-odd in about half a dozen overs and when I got served a short one I hoicked it away high over mid wicket.

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