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Webster 1913 Edition

Hoy

Hoy

,
Noun.
[D.
heu
, or Flem.
hui
.]
(Naut.)
A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
The
hoy
went to London every week.
Cowper.

Hoy

,
int
erj.
[D.
hui
. Cf.
Ahoy
.]
Ho! Halloe! Stop!

Webster 1828 Edition

Hoy

HOY

,
Noun.
A small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed in conveying passengers and goods from place to place on the sea coast, or in transporting goods to and from a ship in a road or bay.

HOY

, an exclamation, of no definite meaning.

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