Anglo-Irish. [a. Irish laighe.] A kind of spade used in Ireland (see quots.).
1763. Museum 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.
1780. A. Young, Tour Irel., I. 286. All the tillage is by the irish loy.
1892. Jane Barlow, Irish Idylls, 181. There be the loys and graips lying around.
