hoy (plural hoys)

1. A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book II, canto X:

     He sent to Germanie, straunge aid to reare, / From whence eftsoones arriued here three hoyes / Of Saxons, whom he for his safetie imployes.

   • The hoy went to London every week.

1. Ho!, hallo!, stop!

hoy (hoys, present participle hoying; past and past participle hoyed)

1. (transitive) To incite; to drive onward.

hoy (hoys, present participle hoying; past and past participle hoyed)

1. (Geordie) To throw.

1. Surname
2. An island in south-west Orkney Islands (OS grid refs HY20, ND29).
3. A small uninhabited island in Shetland Islands, Scotland (OS grid ref HU3744).
4. An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia.

hoy (plural hoys)

1. (education) Initialism of head#English|head of year#English|year.