How to pronounce bay

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What bay means

verb

Most people know bay in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To howl with long, deep cries, as hounds do

In a sentence: All night the hounds bayed at the moon from the farmer's porch.

Where it comes from: It comes from the old French word abaier, which meant to bark. It is a different word from the bay by the sea.

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