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bai2 (c.1240)
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bai2 (c.1240)

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baie  
  FEW:  batare *1,282b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  baie 2 8,272b TL: ∅ DEAF:  beer (baie)  / baie 2  DMF:  baie 3  TLF:  baie 1  OED:  bay n.2  MED:  bai n.3  DMLBS:  baia 1 175a

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1geog.bay, gulf: 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  enz une urette replenie Esteit la baie (=Mont-Saint-Michel)  Femme enc 25
( s.xiii3/3; MS: s.xivm )  le port du baye ou Virgille fist les baynes, q’est dis lieux de Naples  Rich I 8.13
( 1430 )  pour aler a Calscheshord querre lez ankerages des Esterling et Flemyng venant de la bai  Port Bk studer 118
♦toponymBay of Biscay: 
( 1376 )  lour niefs (requisitioned to take seneschal of Gascony to Bordeaux) passeront al Bay pur ceyl (=salt) illoeqes chargere  Rot Parl1 ii 346
( 1378 )  certeins Flamynges prises en la Bay  Rot Parl1 iii 50
2archit.bay: 
( 1438-39 )  pro sarracione bordarum pro le bay in stabulo  Durham 73
( 1454-55 )  Et in 8 planchours cum serracione et factura unius bay pro equis in stabulo  Durham 191
3(bow-shaped) dam: 
( 1387-88 )  auxi les ditz carpenters ferront la Wharf [...] vers l’est del bai tanq’a un pount de merym illoesques  Build salz 468
bai fenestre
archit.bay window: 
( 1342 )  une bai fenestre  Build salz 434

See also:

rerebay 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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