Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The head or upper part of a bay.
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Examples
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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
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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
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When swept into the head of a sheltered bay it constitutes the bay-head beach.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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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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