Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The head or upper part of a bay.

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Examples

  • Moreover, they eat, drink, smoke, sleep, chat, quarrel, and never take exercise: the officers complained sadly that I had made them walk perhaps a mile round the bay-head.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • We heard the roar of the bulls as we neared the head of the bay, and soon afterwards saw the great unwieldy forms of the beasts lying on a shelving beach towards the bay-head.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • When swept into the head of a sheltered bay it constitutes the bay-head beach.

    The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

  • Moreover, they eat, drink, smoke, sleep, chat, quarrel, and never take exercise: the officers complained sadly that I had made them walk perhaps a mile round the bay-head.

    The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

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