shay
IPA: ʃˈeɪ
noun
- (archaic) A chaise.
- A surname from Irish.
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- A diminutive of the male given name Seamus.
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Examples of "shay" in Sentences
- Oromocto, in shay and waggon, steam-boat and catamaran, on horseback or on foot, as best they can.
- Shaych, they called it now-from the Tayledras word shay'a'chern, though only a handful of people in all of Valdemar knew that.
- And the bad news for mr. shay is that his cherished "silent, white, anglo-saxon, christian majority" just MAY not be the majority any longer!
- There will be ten representatives at the meeting, but print five additional copies just in case.fawran. hal hunaaka shay'un ` aakhar? faw-ran. hal hoo-nah-kah shay-oon ah-kar?
- "We believe that customer service shouldn't just be a department, it should be the entire company and ingrained in our culture," said Hsieh (pronounced "shay"), who sold Zappos. com to Amazon. com for $1.2 billion last year.
- Her fore-legs were stiff and jointless, her hip-bones painfully prominent, her ribs sadly bare, and her nose hung dejectedly toward the ground; but she still possessed some mechanical power of locomotion, and the "shay" began to squeak and rattle in her wake.
- The only road, a faint track in the grass, now undiscernible in the gathering gloom, now on the slope of steep hills marked by deep gullies worn by the impetuous autumn rains, and down which the poor old "shay" jerked along in a series of bumps and jolts threatening to demolish at once that patriarchal vehicle and the bones of its occupants.
- I was crying when I got into the 'shay' -- that's what we used to call it -- and old John Mulbery that drove it, and was a good-natured fellow, bought me a handful of apples at the Golden Lion to cheer me up a bit; and he told me that there was a currant-cake, and tea, and pork-chops, waiting for me, all hot, in my aunt's room at the great house.
- But never did bewildering _ignisfatuus_ retire more persistently from the pursuit of unwary traveller than did that Light-house from the occupants of that creaking "shay"; and it was not till total darkness had settled upon the earth that they reached its door, and discovered, by the lamplight streaming out, that Caleb stood in the entrance, awaiting their arrival.
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