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Answer for the clue "Holding at bay ", 7 letters:
treeing

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
See Electrical treeing for branching channels within electrical engineering Treeing is a method of hunting where dogs are used to force animals that naturally climb up into trees, where they can be shot by hunters. Particularly used with coonhunting , treeing ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of tree English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tree \Tree\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Treed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Treeing .] To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel. --J. Burroughs. To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree ...

Usage examples of treeing.

On it is a photo of a sculpture, a simplistically elegant hound—not a treeing hound like her lifelong companion, but a gaze hound, couchant, with a long neck and pointed nose, and a gaze hound's insignificant ears.

Hounds might have bayed like that after treeing a raccoon, especially if they were hungry.

The voice laughed scornfully: Treeing his sword arm if he had a sword!