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Question

What is the meaning of the word hoist based on its context in this excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island?

I ran to fetch it, but I was quite unsteadied by all that had fallen out, and I broke one glass and fouled the tap, and while I was still getting in my own way, I heard a loud fall in the parlour, and running in, beheld the captain lying full length upon the floor. At the same instant my mother, alarmed by the cries and fighting, came running downstairs to help me. Between us, with much trouble, we managed to hoist him upstairs, and laid him on his bed, where his head fell back on the pillow as if he were almost fainting.

A.
keep in one place
B.
lift
C.
drive
D.
drop
E.
roll

Answer 1

B. lift