bay
/ˈbeɪ̯/ noun C2- An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
- An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
- A display unit in a shop or store, especially a large metal one. · end bay· gondola bay
- A section of ceiling delineated by supports such as rafters or vaulting ribs.
- Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
- A bay platform.
- A bay window.
- A room for editing video footage or physical film.
Plural bays
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They never overtook the chimerical friend, yet Andrea frequently inquired of people on foot whom he passed and at the inns which were not yet closed, for a green cabriolet and bay horse; and as there are a great many cabriolets to be seen on the road to the Low Countries, and as nine-tenths of them are green, the inquiries increased at every step.
It will be absolutely necessary that the place you may select have a small harbor, creek, or bay, into which my corvette can enter and remain at anchor.
Divers descended in machines, made expressly on the discovery, into the bay where they were thrown; but of ten three only remained, the rest having been broken by the waves.
To where my toy vessels lie safe in the bay.
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