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I was crying when I got into the 'shay'--that's what we used to call it--and old John Mulbery that drove it, and was a good-natured fellow, bought me a handful of apples at the Golden Lion to cheer me up a bit; and he told me that there was a currant-cake, and tea, and pork-chops, waiting for me, all hot, in my aunt's room at the great house.

—Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton

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noun Informal A chaise.

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But the shay was n't never once hitched up, nor the tabernacle built; and the timber and the shay jes' set there, side by side, seein' who 'd speak first, for twenty year, to my cer-ting knowledge; and you go by there when it was blowin' fresh, and the old curtings would be flappin' in and out, black and white, till finally the whole arrangement sunk out o' sight. — Five Hundred Dollars First published in the "Century Magazine"
"We wondhered what had kept him so late with the return shay, and this is the way it is. — Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes
There is a tradition that a summer visitor once hired a "shay," and drove, all by herself, up to Horn o' the Moon, drawn on by the elusive splendor of its name. — Tiverton Tales
Of course I should not have been contented with a one-horse shay, a mere doctor's pill-box, such as you have put down, father, which Rose and May are determined to set up for you again before they are many year's older Good little chits!" — A Houseful of Girls
Then one day he had the inspiration of building a two-wheeled shay, and harnessing in his lusty and idle dog team. — Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour