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embayed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embay \Em*bay"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Embaying.] [Pref. em- + 1st bay.] To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay.
If that the Turkish fleet
Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
1 enclosed in (or as though in) a bay; harboured. 2 Of water: formed into a bay or bays. v
(en-past of: embay)
Usage examples of "embayed".
Owing to the density of the crowd of reposing whales, more immediately surrounding the embayed axis of the herd, no possible chance of escape was at present afforded us.
A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE by Bret Harte CHAPTER I Just where the track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the summit, hedged by dwarf firs.
Ferrol here at hand, Embayed but by a temporary wind, Are all we now await.
Court, one of the highest canyons of the Sierras, was in reality a plateau of table-land, embayed like a green lake in a semi-circular sweep of granite, that, lifting itself three thousand feet higher, became a foundation for the eternal snows.