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heeze

heeze verb: to hoist.

Verb

heeze (third-person singular simple present heezes, present participle heezing, simple past and past participle heezed)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To hoist.

Forms of heeze

third-person singular presentheezes
present participleheezing
past participleheezed
pastheezed

Origin of heeze

From Middle English hissa! (a cry used by sailors in pulling or hauling). Compare Dutch hijsen.

Questions about heeze

What does heeze mean?
Heeze means to hoist.
What part of speech is heeze?
Heeze is a verb.
What is the past tense of heeze?
The past tense of heeze is heezed.

Words near heeze in the dictionary

  1. Heesch number
  2. Heesch numbers
  3. Heesch's problem
  4. Heeter
  5. Heeters
  6. heeze
  7. Heeze-Leende
  8. heezed
  9. heezes
  10. heezing
  11. hef

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