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anchor-hoy

anchor-hoy noun: a kind of boat for retrieving and transporting anchors.

Noun

anchor-hoy (plural anchor-hoys)

  1. (historical) A kind of boat for retrieving and transporting anchors.

Forms of anchor-hoy

pluralanchor-hoys

Questions about anchor-hoy

What does anchor-hoy mean?
Anchor-hoy means a kind of boat for retrieving and transporting anchors.
What part of speech is anchor-hoy?
Anchor-hoy is a noun.
What is the plural of anchor-hoy?
The plural of anchor-hoy is anchor-hoys.

Words near anchor-hoy in the dictionary

  1. anchor tenant
  2. anchor tenants
  3. anchor worm
  4. anchor worms
  5. anchor's aweigh
  6. anchor-hoy
  7. anchor-hoys
  8. anchorable
  9. anchorably
  10. anchorage
  11. Anchorageite

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