...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...

...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 in carrying passengers and goods from one place to another, particularly on the seacoast (4) The name given to ships with a very narrow...

...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 employed in carrying passengers and goods from one place to another, particularly on the sea coast, where the ordinary lighters cannot be managed...

...mounted on a field-carriage, for throwing spherical shells filled with gunpowder and musket-balls. Hoy. A small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed in carrying passengers and goods from one place to another, particularly on the sea-coast, where the ordinary lighters cannot be managed...

...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...

...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...

...(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...

...to Bayonne in October, 1666, on leaving Spain for the last time (p. 200). A hoy was a small vessel rigged as a sloop and employed in carrying passengers...stopping when called to from the shore to take up goods and passengers. In Holland the hoy had two masts, in England but one, where the mainsail is sometimes...

...HOY The London Magazine, July, 1823. A "hoy" was "a small vessel usually rigged as a sloop, and 2c employed in carrying passengers and goods, particularly in short distances on the sea-coast." 214 : 20. Before. Ie in the essay on Oxford in the Vacation. 215 : 12. That fire-god, etc. Hephaistos,...

...city would be ever and anon putting to them, as to the uses of this or that strange naval implement? 1 "A small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed...name from stopping when called to from the shore." — Admiral Smyth, Sailor's Word-Booh. 'Specially — Can I forget thee, thou happy medium, thou shade...