Poy vs Foy - What's the difference?
poy | foy |
a support structure.
a balancing pole used by rope dancers
a long pole, normally with a hook, used to push barges upstream.
(obsolete, rare) Faith, allegiance.
* , II.x:
(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,
As nouns the difference between poy and foy
is that poy is a support structure while foy is faith, allegiance.poy
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(en noun)foy
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(-)- He Easterland subdewd, and Danmarke wonne, / And of them both did foy and tribute raise, / The which was dew in his dead fathers dayes.
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.