Sekirov Dictionary

fay

/feɪ/

verb 5
adjective 3
noun 3
forms 5

verb5

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To join (pieces of timber) tightly. The long edges of the staves of a barrel have to be fayed so that when it is assembled it will not leak.
- I have a strip cutter and I can cut the exact widths I need to fit, they are easy to fay together and attach very firmly to the bulkheads. — 2010
Of pieces of timber: to lie close together.
(dialect) To cleanse; clean out.
(no longer used) To fit, to add.
(no longer used) To fadge.

adjective3

Fairy-like.
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(US, slang) White; white-skinned.
- I really went for Ray's press roll on the drums; he was the first fay boy I ever heard who mastered this vital foundation of jazz music. — 1946
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Fitted closely together.
- Under the four outer corners of the horizontal frame platform 22 are four tubular leg sleeves 23 that are fay together one at each outer corner. — 2006

noun3

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A fairy.
- that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...]. — 1590
(US, slang) A white person.
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(no longer used) faith
- Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late. I'll to my rest. — 1591

forms

fayed · faying · fays · more fay · most fay

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