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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bay1
▶noun a broad curved inlet of the sea.
– origin ME: from OFr. baie, from Old Sp. bahia.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bay2 (also bay laurel or sweet bay)
▶noun an evergreen, purple-berried Mediterranean shrub, with aromatic leaves that are used in cookery. [Laurus nobilis.]
– origin ME (denoting the laurel berry): from OFr. baie, from L. baca ‘berry’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bay3
▶noun
- 1 a window area that projects outwards from a wall.
- 2 a section of wall in the nave of a church between two buttresses or columns.
- 3 an area specially allocated or marked off: a loading bay.
- 4 (also bay platform) Brit. a short terminal platform at a railway station also having through lines.
– origin ME: from OFr. baie, from baer ‘to gape’, from med. L. batare.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bay4
▶adjective (of a horse) brown with black points. ▶noun a bay horse.
– origin ME: from OFr. bai, from L. badius.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bay5
▶verb (of a dog) bark or howl loudly, especially in pursuit of quarry. ▶noun the sound of baying.
– phrases
at bay trapped or cornered.
bay for blood demand retribution.
hold (or keep) at bay prevent from approaching or having an effect.
at bay trapped or cornered.
bay for blood demand retribution.
hold (or keep) at bay prevent from approaching or having an effect.
– origin ME: from OFr. (a)bai (n.), (a)baiier (v.) ‘bark’; imitative.
'bay' also found in these Oxford entries:
abalone
- baize
- bay leaf
- bay rum
- bay window
- bevel
- bomb bay
- Botany
- bow window
- compass window
- cove
- daphne
- Dublin Bay prawn
- embay
- embayment
- horn
- Hudson's Bay blanket
- laurel
- loading bay
- mouth
- oriel
- red roan
- roan
- severy
- voe
- window seat
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Bay Billy
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Green Bay Tree
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What is the meaning of bay’s?
across a bay or an estuary
at bay
Bay Billy
courtesy bay
Don't turn down/on Bay Street
driven to bay
Emergency docking bay
end up in the fragile bay
Green Bay Tree
high bay storage sytems
keep sb at "bay"?
keep somebody at bay
swim halfway across the bay
What is the meaning of bay’s?
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