Heized

/haɪzd/ verb

Definition

Past tense of heize; raised or lifted something to a higher position.

Etymology

Regular past tense formation of heize, adding the -ed suffix to create the past tense form used in English grammar.

Kelly Says

This is a ghost word in modern English—grammatically correct but so rarely used that most people would simply say 'hoisted' instead, making it a linguistic fossil from earlier English nautical traditions.

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