unbay

English edit

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Etymology edit

un- +‎ bay

Verb edit

unbay (third-person singular simple present unbays, present participle unbaying, simple past and past participle unbayed)

(obsolete, transitive) To free from the restraint of anything that surrounds or encloses.
- 1687, John Norris, A Collection of Miscellanies, consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses and Letters:
  I ought […] to unbay the current of my passion.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unbay”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

Yanbu, bunya