The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hoyman \Hoy"man\, n.; pl. Hoymen. One who navigates a hoy.
A common hoyman to carry goods by water for hire.
--Hobart.
Wiktionary
n. One who navigates a hoy (sailing vessel).
Usage examples of "hoyman".
Bernard states the liability as applicable to all bailees for reward, exercising a public employment, and mentions common hoymen and masters of ships alongside of, not as embraced under, common carriers.
The Chief Justice therefore proceeded to distinguish between [198] bailees for reward exercising a public employment, such as common carriers, common hoymen, masters of ships, &c.
This is further illustrated by the fact that, when the duty was thus set forth, it was not alleged as an obligation peculiar to common carriers as such, but was laid as the custom of law of common hoymen, or lightermen, &c.
Slue, argued by Holt himself, in which the liability of masters of ships, hoymen, carriers, &c.
Besides, hoymen and masters of ships were not originally held because they were common carriers, and they were all three treated as co-ordinate species, even in Coggs v.