| J. J. Moore - 1805 - 300 pages
...Ireland, and carrying only one mast. HOY, a small vessel,, usually rigged as a sloop, and em. ployed in carrying passengers and goods from one place to another,. particularly on the sea-coast, whereordinary lighters cannot be managed with safety or convenience. To HUG the land, to sail as near... | |
| George Crabb - 1823 - 704 pages
...HOWL (Mar.) is said of a ship when the foothooks are scarfed into the timbers and bolted. HOY (Mar.) a small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed in carrying passengers from one place to another. HUA'NACO (Zoo/.) a sort of South American camel, the Camelus huanacus of... | |
| George Crabbe - 1834 - 336 pages
...Salicomia, is here meant, not the true samphire, the Cfithmum maritimum. (2) The Salsola of botanists. (3) [ A small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed...goods from one place to another, particularly on the sea. toast. (4) The name given to ships with a very narrow stern. (5) Small merchant ships with two... | |
| George Crabbe - 1840 - 332 pages
...Sahcornia, is here meant, not the true samphire, the Crithmum maritimum. (2) The SalHila of botanists. (3) [A small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed...one place to another, particularly on the seacoast (4) The name given to ships with a very narrow stern. (5) Small merchant ships with two masts. (6)... | |
| Dictionary - 1844 - 412 pages
...the frame of the top and trestle trees, together with the topmast and the rigging of the lower mast. HOY. A small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and...goods from one place to another, particularly on the sea coast, where the ordinary lighters cannot be managed with safety or convenience. HUCKABACK. A coarse... | |
| George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...breath their stifling smoke. e [A small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed in cirrying passengers and goods from one place to another. particularly on the sea-coast. 7 The name given to «hipa with a very narrow stern. B Small merchant ships with two masts. * A vessel... | |
| William Henry Smyth - 1867 - 836 pages
...plauk laid up to the orlop-deck, then they say, "the ship begins to howle." HOY. A call to a man. Also, a small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed in carrying passengers and goods, particularly in short distances on the sea-coast; it acquired its name from stopping when called to... | |
| Popular encyclopedia - 1879 - 534 pages
...candles and chicory; a bleach-field, paper-mill, brewery, distillery, and an active trade. Pop. 5041. HOY, a small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed in carrying goods and passengers short distances coastwise, and sometimes in conveying goods to and from larger... | |
| 1901 - 530 pages
...(heuk'ster), a town of Westphalia, Prussia, on the left bank of the Weser, once a Hanse town. Pop. 6036. Hoy, a small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed in carrying goods and passengers short distances coastwise, and sometimes in conveying goods to and from larger... | |
| George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 pages
...extended heaps of coal and coke, Where frcsh-fill'd lime-kilns breath their stifling smoke. e [Л email vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed in carrying passengers and gooda from one place to another, particularly on the sea-coast. 7 The name given to ships with a very... | |
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