Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a bay or bays, as a building: as, “the large bay'd barn,”
- Formed as a bay or recess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a bay or bays.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bay . - adjective Having a bay or bays.
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Examples
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I contrived to give one of them a smart tap on the crown before they came to close quarters; but ere I could recover myself they were upon me, the staff was wrenched from my grasp, and I was as hard put to it as a stag bayed by hounds.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang
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Half of fandom rejoiced while the other half bayed for our blood.
Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'Window Of Opportunity' (S04E06) 2009
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Bronze carillon bells swung in wooden frames and bayed the hour like angry beasts.
G'lder Curtis Hox 2011
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I liked it not more than he did that his country hounds had for two days bayed mournfully.
Perquampi Andrew Edwards 2011
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But the dogs had him bayed and he wasnt going anywhere.
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The only way all of them dogs were staying there and not moving in thirty minutes is if they had something bayed.
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Your dogs bayed at the music your fathers made and your fathers shot them with musket fire and soon along your boulevards laid the musket scorched husks of collie dogs and basset hounds.
Beneath the Light of an Exploding City Robert Kloss 2011
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Although the home crowd bayed for a response from the officials on both occasions, no cards of any colour were shown.
Andy Carroll and Glen Johnson fly into Kompany tackle debate 2012
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The only way all of them dogs were staying there and not moving in thirty minutes is if they had something bayed.
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The leper's dogs came out and bayed at us, and we stumbled around till we got lost.
The Sheriff of Kona 2010
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