shay

[ shey ]
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nounChiefly Dialect.
  1. a chaise.

Origin of shay

1
1710–20; respelling and back formation from chaise (taken as plural)

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How to use shay in a sentence

  • He drives a white mule, and has managed to put a top of sail cloth on an old ramshackle buggy, which he calls a 'shay.'

    The Cromptons | Mary J. Holmes
  • But there stood the stout old one-hoss shay As fresh as on Lisbon earthquake-day!

  • Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay, "Huddup!"

  • You may've noticed 't I'm jush trifle—er, well, some people ud shay zhrunk, Toffski—rude 'n' dish'gree'ble people dshay zhrunk.

  • But they say he has not won a single aërial handicap since that American professor of yours harnessed him to a one-hoss shay.

    Tales of Fantasy and Fact | Brander Matthews

British Dictionary definitions for shay

shay

/ (ʃeɪ) /


noun
  1. a dialect word for chaise

Origin of shay

1
C18: back formation from chaise, mistakenly thought to be plural

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