wye
the letter Y, or something having a similar shape.
Electricity. a three-phase, Y-shaped circuit arrangement.
Railroads. a track arrangement with three switches and three legs for reversing the direction of a train.
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a river flowing from central Wales through SW England into the Severn estuary. 130 miles (210 km) long.
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How to use wye in a sentence
His intention, he said, was to turn Archer City — “a bookless town in a bookless part of the state” — into a Lone Star version of Hay-on-wye, the celebrated bookstore and book-festival town in Wales.
Larry McMurtry, award-winning novelist who pierced myths of his native Texas, dies at 84 | Joe Holley | March 26, 2021 | Washington PostAlthough Clinton got Netanyahu to sign the 1998 wye River Memorandum, for instance, he could not make Netanyahu implement it.
Obama Won’t Pressure Israel If He Wins Second Term | Peter Beinart | April 2, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 1998 he negotiated the wye River Plantation with Yasser Arafat who he later called “his friend.”
Other festivals such as that at Hay-on-wye have had similar experiences.
Fluffy clouds regularly float over the Middle East, with names like Camp David, Road Map, Oslo Process, and wye River Memorandum.
Crab Seasoned Popcorn Manufacturer: wye River Wholesale, Inc.
A quiet, unpretentious old border town is Hereford, pleasantly located on the banks of the always beautiful wye.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyOur run from Hereford up the wye Valley to the sea, we agreed was one of our red-letter days.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyIt is situated in a wonderfully picturesque position, on a rocky bluff overlooking the River wye.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyAfter a little rest, we again sported our seven-league boots, and took a solitary ramble across the wye.
I have known more than one who carried his dog with him; and once, on the wye, I met one whose companion was a goose.
Adventures and Enthusiasms | E. V. Lucas
British Dictionary definitions for Wye
/ (waɪ) /
a river in E Wales and W England, rising in Powys and flowing southeast into Herefordshire, then south to the Severn estuary. Length: 210 km (130 miles)
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