Hoisting (or Hoist-lay), subs. (thieves’).—1. Shop-lifting. The hoist
(q.v.). Also shaking a man head downwards, so that his money rolls out
of his pockets.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
1821. D. Haggart, Life, glossary, p. 172. Hoys, shop-lifting.
1868. Temple Bar, xxiv., 534. She can secrete articles about her
dress when in a shop looking at things, and that’s one way of
hoisting.