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In some senses, fay is marked as obsolete, slang, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
fay
/feɪ/
verb 5name 5adj 3noun 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
easy, powerful, together, wicked, wrought
FAY + NOUN
boy, mortenson
ADV.
ever
Definitions
verb
1
To fit, to add.
2
To join (pieces of timber) tightly. The long edges of the staves of a barrel have to be fayed so that when it is assembled it will not leak.
I have a strip cutter and I can cut the exact widths I need to fit, they are easy to fay together and attach very firmly to the bulkheads.
3
Of pieces of timber: to lie close together.
4
To fadge.
adj
1
Fitted closely together.
Under the four outer corners of the horizontal frame platform 22 are four tubular leg sleeves 23 that are fay together one at each outer corner.
noun
1
A fairy.
that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].
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I have a strip cutter and I can cut the exact widths I need to fit, they are easy to fay together and attach very firmly to the bulkheads.
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Under the four outer corners of the horizontal frame platform 22 are four tubular leg sleeves 23 that are fay together one at each outer corner.
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that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].
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I really went for Ray's press roll on the drums; he was the first fay boy I ever heard who mastered this vital foundation of jazz music.
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Fay Mortenson, 50, tells Them that she “dropped to the floor sobbing” after getting her 16-year-old son’s passport back with an “F” on it. When she saw in the State Department’s online database in Feb
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Morgan le Fay was a powerful sorceress and the half-sister of King Arthur.
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