hoy

noun

1. A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.

   “He sent to Germanie, straunge aid to reare, From whence eftsoones arriued here three hoyes Of Saxons, whom he for his safetie imployes.”

   “Per packet per Hoy.”

   “The hoy went to London every week.”

   “The out-fit is not a trifle: no lady can be landed there, under respectable circumstances throughout, for less than five hundred pounds... [Visiting India] is not like a trip, per hoy, to Margate, where nothing but a well-lined purse is requisite...”

   “Oh, sea-sickness! thou cream of miseries—thou ocean-purgatory!... how presumptuous would it be in me to essay a description of thee, when so many better qualified have failed in the attempt, from the early voyager per hoy to Margate and Ramsgate, to the bolder spirits of more recent times, who, leaving the pleasant sounds of Bow bells, recklessly brave the dangers of a transit to Calais and Boulogne!”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of head of year.

intj

1. Hey! ho!, hallo!, stop!

verb

1. (transitive)To incite; to drive onward.
2. (Australia, Northumbria)To throw.

   “They grab his duds and his picks as well. They hoy him down to the pit of hell. Down you go and fare ye well. You dirty blackleg miner.”

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
2. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States.
3. An island in south-west Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid refs HY20, ND29).
4. A small uninhabited island of the Shetland Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HU3744).