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Poy vs Foy - What's the difference?

poy | foy |

As nouns the difference between poy and foy

is that poy is a support structure while foy is faith, allegiance.

poy

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a support structure.
  • a balancing pole used by rope dancers
  • a long pole, normally with a hook, used to push barges upstream.
  • foy

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete, rare) Faith, allegiance.
  • * , II.x:
  • He Easterland subdewd, and Danmarke wonne, / And of them both did foy and tribute raise, / The which was dew in his dead fathers dayes.
  • (obsolete) A feast given by one about to leave a place.
  • * 1661 November 25, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1661 , 2006, Echo Library, page 124,
  • To Westminster Hall in the morning with Captain Lambert, and there he did at the Dog give me and some other friends of his, his foy , he being to set sail to-day towards the Streights.
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