hoiting

Verb

hoit (third-person singular simple present hoits, present participle hoiting, simple past and past participle hoited)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To behave frivolously and thoughtlessly; to play the fool.
   • Let none condemn them [girls] for Rigs, becauſe thus hoiting vvith boys, ſeeing the ſimplicity of their age vvas a Patent to priviledge any innocent paſtime, and fevv mo[r]e years vvill make them bluſh themſelves into better manners.1650, Thomas Fuller, “Of the Clothes and Ornaments of the Jews”, in A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon, London: […] J....
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To romp noisily; to caper, to leap.
   • Hark, my husband! he's singing and hoiting; and I'm fain to cark and care, and all little enough1607 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC...