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bay

/ˈbeɪ̯/ noun A2
  1. A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline. · This hotel has a great view across the bay.
  2. A bank or dam to keep back water.

Plural bays

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To where my toy vessels lie safe in the bay.
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 17 · C1
And from the window-bay
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 24 · C1
If it’s your liver, there’s the _Rambler_ down in the bay, coaled, and ready to steam down to the Bahamas in two days.”
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 10 · C1
Let him be accepted.” And then came Akela’s deep bay, crying: “Look well--look well, O Wolves!”
The Jungle Book, p. 11 · B2

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