bay

noun. calling out; yelling

verb. call out, yell

noun. calling out; yelling

verb. call out, yell

noun. sea inlet

noun. place for storing boats in the water

noun. long, painful cry

noun. long, painful cry

Word Origin & History

"inlet of the sea," c.1400, from Old French baie, Late Latin baia (c.640), perhaps ultimately from Iberian bahia.

Nothing looked cool, that day, but the bay and those who were going into it.

Meantime a white film of fog spread down the bay from the northward.

He knew something of horses, and this bay fitted into his dreams of an ideal perfectly.

The passage was stormy--the Bay of Biscay, in particular, giving us a touch of its qualities.

The bay is merely an elbow, half the winds blowing in from the open sea.

Falling in with an American in the Bay of Biscay, we got a barrel of beef which lasted us in.

We chased her into the Bay of Quinté, and there we lost her in the darkness.

There is another thing that we can do—follow them into the bay, and attack them there on shore.

Bay asked, meeting the bright, angry eyes with a quiet smile.

They had probably divined, too, that the quarry was at bay and was dangerous.