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Quotation dates: 1770
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†BAY, v.2 To bend in the middle.Sc. c. 1770 H. Heght Songs from D. Herd's MSS. (1904) 198:
It will be a post and pillar gude, It'l neither bow nor bay. pa.p. bayed, bent in the middle (S.D.D.).
