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·interj Ho! Halloe! Stop!. II. Hoy ·noun A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conv...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A call to a man. Also, a small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed in carrying passenger...
The Sailor's Word-Book
neither man nor boy, a young man between both. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A sloop expressly fitted for transporting ordnance stores to ships, and from port to port. ...
An ordnance vessel expressly fitted to convey powder from the land magazine to a ship; it invariably...
A sloop formerly expressly licensed for carrying stores to the E. I. Company's ships. ...