boyer

From Dutch boeijer, so called because these vessels were employed for laying the boeijen, or buoys: compare French boyer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔɪɚ/

boyer (plural boyers)

1. A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.

   Synonyms: boeier, bojort

   • 1651, Walter Raleigh, Observations touching trade and commerce with the Hollander and other nations:

     they have many advantages of us; the one is, by their fashioned ships called boyers, hoybarks, hoys, and others […]

• “boyer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Robey, ybore