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Bebay

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To bay around or about; embay; hem in; surround. rare, transitive

Etymology

From be- + bay (“to bend”), from Middle English beien, beȝen, from Old English bīeġan (“to bend, turn, turn back, incline, depress, abase, humiliate, subject, persuade, convert”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- + *baugijaną.

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