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▸ noun: A bank or dam to keep back water.
▸ noun: Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
▸ noun: Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
▸ noun: A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
▸ noun: (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
▸ noun: (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A berry.
▸ noun: An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
▸ noun: An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
▸ noun: A display unit in a shop or store, especially a large metal one
▸ noun: The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
▸ noun: (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
▸ noun: (rail transport) A bay platform.
▸ noun: A bay window.
▸ noun: The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
▸ noun: (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
▸ noun: (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To howl.
▸ verb: (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
▸ verb: (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
▸ adjective: (especially of horses) Of a reddish-brown colour.
▸ noun: A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
▸ noun: A horse of this color.
▸ noun: A region of Somalia.
▸ noun: A surname
▸ noun: (informal) Ellipsis of San Francisco Bay Area. (metropolitan area in California); A region of California, United States [A region of California, United States The nine or twelve counties surrounding the city of San Francisco.]
▸ noun: (informal) Ellipsis of San Francisco Bay.; A bay of the Pacific in California, United States [(geography) A large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, which gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area.]
Similar:
true laurel,
bay laurel,
bay tree,
alcove,
colored,
coloured,
colorful,
quest,
in color,
Laurus nobilis,
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SFrancisco Bay,
Chesapeake Bay,
Mobile Bay,
Galveston Bay,
TampBay,
Narragansett Bay,
Hudson Bay,
Bay of Fundy,
Bay of Bengal,
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