"powder hoy" meaning in English

See powder hoy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: powder hoys [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} powder hoy (plural powder hoys)
  1. (obsolete, nautical) A vessel, often painted red and carrying a red flag, that carried gunpowder to a man-of-war. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Nautical
    Sense id: en-powder_hoy-en-noun-sJUfVwV8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: nautical, transport

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for powder hoy meaning in English (1.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "powder hoys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "powder hoy (plural powder hoys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A vessel, often painted red and carrying a red flag, that carried gunpowder to a man-of-war."
      ],
      "id": "en-powder_hoy-en-noun-sJUfVwV8",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "vessel",
          "vessel"
        ],
        [
          "gunpowder",
          "gunpowder"
        ],
        [
          "man-of-war",
          "man-of-war"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, nautical) A vessel, often painted red and carrying a red flag, that carried gunpowder to a man-of-war."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "powder hoy"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "powder hoys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "powder hoy (plural powder hoys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A vessel, often painted red and carrying a red flag, that carried gunpowder to a man-of-war."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "vessel",
          "vessel"
        ],
        [
          "gunpowder",
          "gunpowder"
        ],
        [
          "man-of-war",
          "man-of-war"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, nautical) A vessel, often painted red and carrying a red flag, that carried gunpowder to a man-of-war."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "powder hoy"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.