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Meanings of hoy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "lighter"
Examples for "lighter"
1
Regulation was far lighter in the years preceding the world's financial crisis.
2
This was a wonderful opportunity to change the subject to lighter issues.
3
The leader is a dark-brown stallion; the mares are lighter in colour.
4
The lighter your skin, the lower you were in the social scale.
5
Despite all these concerns, he felt increasingly lighter as the days passed.
1
I sat in the stern of the barge to tend the drag-rope.
2
Luckily, we can use your badge to barge around and ask questions.
3
Everybody in Plymouth would know this barge, and its purpose here today.
4
The blockages have cost barge companies and other shippers millions of dollars.
5
On the 4th I got a passage in the barge to H.M.C.S.
1
On the morrow the people in the flatboat came to say good-bye.
2
The launching of that flatboat was made a feast-day in the neighborhood.
3
A flatboat, with a man standing to the oars, bore down swiftly.
4
They had found the negro's flatboat, and carried it to the stream.
5
The early company went in a flatboat; these went in a round-bottom boat.
Usage of hoy in English
1
The voice came, appropriately enough, from the barrel-shaped captain of the hoy.
2
There lay the hoy in which he was to sail.
3
His was the only white face in the hoy; the others were painted black.
4
The rude fishermen of the Kentish coast eyed the hoy with suspicion and with cupidity.
5
The hoy's boat was towing under the quarter; they hauled it in and scrambled down.
6
Think about how sad you are right now about that hoy's death, about all of their deaths.
7
Well, well, Dame, then we will content ourselves with a run in the hoy down to Margate.
8
I sailed aboard a small hoy, so we couldn't take on too large or well defended a ship.
9
What they call a hobbe-de-hoy will suit for his name sooner than any other that I know on.
10
All I have is this hoy.
11
I gave immediate orders to summon a hoy to carry me that evening to Dartmouth, without considering any consequence.
12
For up started Mowbray, writhing and shaking himself as in an ague-fit; his hands stretched over his head-withthy hoy!
13
They dragged the hoy to the sapling, stood him erect against the slim trunk, and hound him fast with green withes.
14
Como stamos hoy de mosquitos?)
15
He shipped his furniture on board a hoy of Rainham, and accompanied it down the Thames to the junction with the Medway.
16
The Navy Office charter of the hoy presumably compelled Baddlestone to give passages to transient officers, but omitted all reference to subsistence.