BAY

Definitions

1. 1. An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
2. 2. A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.
3. 3. A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
4. 4. A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.
5. 5. A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.
6. 6. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay. Sick bay, in vessels of war, that part of a deck appropriated to the use of the sick. Totten.