loy

Examples

• All

• Fred Astaire and Myrna loy.

  Inside Daisy Clover (1966)

• They were just two loyaI supporters...

  Jade (1995)

• Do you know what a loy is?

  Love & Rage (2000)

• And I just Rose the loy and let fall the edge on a Ridge of his skull.

  Love & Rage (2000)

• - Hunna-loy-loy.

  Brian and Charles (2022)

• - Hunna-loy-loy.

  Brian and Charles (2022)

• Loy extractions never recreated an intact DNA strand.

  Jurassic Park (1993)

• TOFFLER: ♪ O Lord ♪ ♪ What great reward ♪ ♪ Lord can you ♪ ♪ Afford ♪ ♪ A loy-- a loyal ser-servant ♪ servant... servant... lervant, dervant...

  Ravenous (1999)

• In Ireland, a loy is often used to turn over the soil in gardens.

• Farmers traditionally use a loy to prepare the earth for planting.

Synonyms

L

long-handled spade

vsloy

3.9

A digging tool with a long handle for reaching deep, narrow holes

is the traditional Irish long narrow tool used for general soil digging

D

ditch spade

vsloy

7.0

A spade with a long handle for digging narrow ditches

is the traditional Irish tool used across soils rather than only ditch work

T

trenching spade

vsloy

• UK

8.0

A small narrow shovel soldiers use to dig trenches

is the traditional Irish farming tool rather than a military hand shovel

G

garden spade

vsloy

2.7

A hand tool with a flat rectangular blade for digging and edging soil

is long and narrow traditional Irish tool rather than a broad flat digging tool

How Long

loy

• Archaic

1 9.9

spade

25 1.0

shovel

142 1.0

hand shovel

2.3

trowel

10 4.8

Surface Forms

Etymology