barge, flatboat, hoy, lighter
(noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hoy (plural hoys)
A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
hoy
Ho!, hallo!, stop!
hoy (third-person singular simple present hoys, present participle hoying, simple past and past participle hoyed)
(transitive) To incite; to drive onward.
hoy (third-person singular simple present hoys, present participle hoyin or hoying, simple past and past participle hoyed)
(northern British dialect, AU) To throw.
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Hoy (countable and uncountable, plural Hoys)
A surname.
An island in south-west Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid refs HY20, ND29).
A small uninhabited island in Shetland Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HU3744).
An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hoy is the 3855th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 9196 individuals. Hoy is most common among White (85.3%) individuals.
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HOY (plural HOYs)
(education) Initialism of head of year.
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Source: Wiktionary
Hoy, n. Etym: [D. heu, or Flem. hui.] (Naut.)
Definition: 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, interj. Etym: [D. hui. Cf. Ahoy.]
Definition: Ho! Halloe! Stop!
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
