hoy

Examples

• All

• Hoy!

  Black Mama, White Mama (1973)

• Hoy, hoy.

  Gulliver's Travels (1939)

• - Hoy, how you doing?

  The Story of Mother's Day (2021)

• Hoy, Hoy.

  Mozart and the Whale (2005)

• A-hoy there!

  Pirates (1986)

• To think that I, the right hand of Beelzebub himself, should be subjected to the opinions of churrels and hubble-di-hoys.

  Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)

• We interviewed everyone in the area—the doorman who took the message from the hoy?

  Fiction book (1993)

• The workers loaded heavy crates onto the hoy before it set off down the canal.

• To transport the goods efficiently, they hired a large hoy that could navigate the narrow waterways.

• During the festival, a traditional hoy was used to carry supplies for the celebration along the river.

Synonyms

B

barge

vshoy

57 3.9

A large flat boat that carries heavy goods on rivers or canals

is mainly used on canals for carrying heavy loads

F

flatboat

vshoy

• Archaic

1 8.1

A long boat with a flat bottom and square ends used to carry heavy loads on rivers

is similar but focuses on canal use rather than boat shape

L

lighter

vshoy

• Specialized

1 9.1

A flat-bottomed boat used to carry heavy goods on rivers and near ports

is used mainly on canals for carrying heavy goods rather than ship transfer

C

canal boat

vshoy

1 3.2

A long narrow boat that carries people or goods on canals

is focused on heavy canal cargo rather than passenger or narrow design

W

wherry

vshoy

• Archaic

1 9.9

A long narrow boat used on rivers to carry people or goods

is used mainly for hauling heavy canal loads, not for racing or passengers

F

flat-bottom

vshoy

4.1

A boat with a level hull for shallow, calm water

is specifically about carrying heavy canal loads, not just hull design

Surface Forms

Etymology