Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
embayed .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
imbay .
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Examples
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On the 18th, though in the morning our navigators had been quite imbayed, they were, notwithstanding, at length enabled to get clear of the field of ice.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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On the 18th, though in the morning our navigators had been quite imbayed, they were, notwithstanding, at length enabled to get clear of the field of ice.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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Voyage: and now lately being imbayed in a deepe Bay, which the
Henry Hudson A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements 1881
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But after running four leagues upon this course, with the ice on our starboard side, we found ourselves quite imbayed; the ice extending from N.N.E. round by the west and south, to east, in one compact body.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784
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At two o'clock the next morning we stood again to the northward, with the wind at N.W. by W., thinking to weather the ice upon this tack; on which we stood but two hours, before we found ourselves quite imbayed, being then in latitude 55° 8 ', longitude 24° 3'.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784
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On the 18th, though in the morning our navigators had been quite imbayed, they were, notwithstanding, at length enabled to get clear of the field of ice.
Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods Andrew Kippis 1760
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But after running four leagues upon this course, with the ice on our starboard side, we found ourselves quite imbayed; the ice extending from N.N.E. round by the west and south, to east, in one compact body.
A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 James Cook 1753
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At two o'clock the next morning we stood again to the northward, with the wind at N.W. by W., thinking to weather the ice upon this tack; on which we stood but two hours, before we found ourselves quite imbayed, being then in latitude 55° 8 ', longitude 24° 3'.
A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 James Cook 1753
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Being thus imbayed among those shoules, we were constrained to put back againe, which we did with no small danger, though both the winde and weather were as fayre as we could desire.
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The next morning we found our selues imbayed with a mightie headland: within a league of the shore we anchored, and Captaine Gosnoll, my selfe, & three others went to it in our boat, being a white sand & a bold coast.
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