Also 9 boier. [a. Du. boeijer a smack.] A sloop of Flemish construction, with a raised work at each end. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk.
a. 1618. Raleigh, in Remains (1661), 167. By their fashioned Ships called Boyers, Hoybarks, Hoyes … made to hold great bulke of Merchandize.
1642. Mrq. Hertford, Lett. to Queen, 6. Master Knolles a servant of the king went in the boyer.
1882. Standard, 25 Dec., 3/3. It has beauties of its own quite equal to those of xebec, felucca, or boier all put together.
