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▪ I. † loy1 Obs. rare.
Also 6 loye.
[a. OF. loie, loy, or aphetic for alloy.]
Alloy.
1598Florio, Caráto, the touch or refining, or loye of gold. Ibid., Coppella, a refiner's woord, called the test or loye of siluer or gold. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. i. 127 We see euery thing want some-what in the finenesse of it's Loy and true touch.
▪ II. loy2 Anglo-Irish.|lɔɪ|
[a. Irish laighe.]
A kind of spade used in Ireland (see quots.).
1763Museum Rusticum I. lxxxiii. 358 The iron part of the loy, or Irish spade, is not quite half so broad at the edge as the English garden spade. 1780A. Young Tour Irel. I. 286 All the tillage is by the irish loy. 1892J. Barlow Irish Idylls 181 There be the loys and graips lying around. |