hoist

"I was able to get hoisted into a chair, sit up a bit better... and, as the days went on, I was able to get out of bed with help from the nurses and family."

Frantic, he helped his parents hoist his six younger siblings over a backyard fence as fireballs of ignited crude descended around their home, just across the street.

In the end, he had to engineer a way to hoist the chain-link enclosure out of the stream for the winter.

Firefighters then hoisted the man up by rope and paramedics took him to a local trauma center in critical condition, officials said.

You have to give the union credit for hoisting Mr. Newsom on his own petard.