A flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
1The voice came, appropriately enough, from the barrel-shaped captain of the hoy.
2There lay the hoy in which he was to sail.
3His was the only white face in the hoy; the others were painted black.
4The rude fishermen of the Kentish coast eyed the hoy with suspicion and with cupidity.
5The hoy's boat was towing under the quarter; they hauled it in and scrambled down.
6Think about how sad you are right now about that hoy's death, about all of their deaths.
7Well, well, Dame, then we will content ourselves with a run in the hoy down to Margate.
8I sailed aboard a small hoy, so we couldn't take on too large or well defended a ship.
9What they call a hobbe-de-hoy will suit for his name sooner than any other that I know on.
11I gave immediate orders to summon a hoy to carry me that evening to Dartmouth, without considering any consequence.
12For up started Mowbray, writhing and shaking himself as in an ague-fit; his hands stretched over his head-withthy hoy!
13They dragged the hoy to the sapling, stood him erect against the slim trunk, and hound him fast with green withes.
14Como stamos hoy de mosquitos?)
15He shipped his furniture on board a hoy of Rainham, and accompanied it down the Thames to the junction with the Medway.
16The Navy Office charter of the hoy presumably compelled Baddlestone to give passages to transient officers, but omitted all reference to subsistence.