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Boyer

//ˈbɔɪɚ// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from French. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A place name:; A commune in Loire department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A place name:; A commune in Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A place name:; A rural locality in Brighton council area and Derwent Valley council area, Tasmania, Australia. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A place name:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community and township in Crawford County, Iowa. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A place name:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Sunflower County, Mississippi. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A place name:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Wright County, Missouri. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A place name:; A place in the United States:; A ghost town in Churchill County, Nevada. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A place name:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.

    "they have many advantages of us; the one is, by their fashioned ships called boyers, hoybarks, hoys, and others[…]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Dutch boeijer, so called because these vessels were employed for laying the boeijen, or buoys: compare French boyer.

Etymology 2

From French Boyer.

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