shay
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 4
Definition of shay
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(archaic)A chaise.
“The poſt-ſhay ſhall be at the door by ſix o'clock in the morning; and if Miſs Fanny does not get into it, vvhy I vvill, and ſo there's an end of the matter.”
“Master sent me over with the shay-cart, to carry your luggage up to the house. He’d ha’ sent some saddle-horses, but he thought you’d rather walk, being a cold day.”
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noun
-
(archaic)A chaise.
“The poſt-ſhay ſhall be at the door by ſix o'clock in the morning; and if Miſs Fanny does not get into it, vvhy I vvill, and ſo there's an end of the matter.”
“Master sent me over with the shay-cart, to carry your luggage up to the house. He’d ha’ sent some saddle-horses, but he thought you’d rather walk, being a cold day.”
- A geared steam locomotive, patented by Ephraim Shay.
name
- A surname from Irish.
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- A diminutive of the male given name Seamus.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
A back-formation from chaise (originally from French), with the /z/ of that word taken as the plural ending -s.
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