cay

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This made it impossible to use her guns with any great effect Captain Wellsby tacked ship and kept the King George well away from the cay, as Joe Hawkridge advised.

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  1. noun A small, low island composed largely of coral or sand.

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  • Their names had memories for her from her last journey, all those years ago: Lillen-cay, Ia, Junno, Olldus Precipitus, but they were reminders of breathless anticipation on the voyage out or of quiet thoughts on the journey home, not actual recollections of events or experiences ashore. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#214
  • They were the longest cuss words Monk and Ham had heard DRAWING near the little cay, Monk became a man who was driven mad by fear, and worn to exhaustion. —  108 - Men of Fear
  • "The Fountain of Youth could be on this cay," Ham insisted. —  019 - Fear Cay
  • Probably no more than a cay, a handful of sand, coral, mangroves and a few palm trees, and obviously uninhabited. —  162 - Three Times a Corpse
  • He kept close to the jungle until he had rounded a point and was where lightning flashes would not reveal him to a lookout if there was one near the schooner The cay was about one half a mile in length, a couple of hundred yards wide at the broadest part, and there was shoal water on the west side, which was the side opposite the lagoon. —  162 - Three Times a Corpse
 

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  1. Alteration (influenced by quay) of Spanish cayo, probably from Taino.

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  1. from Spanish cayo; English usually written key: see key, quay.
 

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