Definition of "hoy"

hoy¹

/hɔɪ/

noun
plural hoys
1. (nautical) A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
  Quotations
  He sent to Germanie, straunge aid to reare, / From whence eftsoones arriued here three hoyes / Of Saxons, whom he for his safetie imployes.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  The hoy went to London every week.
  July 1779, William Cowper, letter to the Rev. William Unwin

hoy²

/hɔɪ/

interjection
1. Ho!, hallo!, stop!
verb
third-person singular simple present hoys, present participle hoying, simple past and past participle hoyed
1. (transitive) To incite; to drive onward.

hoy³

/hɔɪ/

verb
third-person singular simple present hoys, present participle hoying or hoyin, simple past and past participle hoyed
1. (Northumbria, Australia) To throw.
  Quotations
  They grab his duds and his picks as well. They hoy him down to the pit of hell. Down you go and fare ye well. You dirty blackleg miner.
  1970 June, traditional (lyrics and music), “The Blackleg Miner” (track 4), in Hark! The Village Wait‎, performed by Steeleye Span