Cay - Wiktionary

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /kiː/, /keɪ/

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• Rhymes: -iː, -eɪ

Etymology 1

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English Wikipedia has an article on:cayWikipedia

 

From Spanish cayo, from Taíno.

Alternative forms

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• key

Noun

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cay (plural cays or cayes)

1. A small, low island largely made of sand or coral.

Derived terms

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• Bellamy Cay
• Big Ambergris Cay
• Big Cay
• Cas Cay
• Cinnamon Cay
• Congo Cay
• Cotton Cay
• Dellis Cay
• Diamond Cay
• Dragon Cay
• Elbow Cay
• Fort George Cay
• French Cay
• Frenchman's Cay
• Gibbs Cay
• Grass Cay
• Green Cay
• Henley Cay
• Hope Cay
• Joe Grant Cay
• Kalkun Cay
• Little Ambergris Cay
• Little Cay
• Long Cay
• Lovango Cay
• Mangrove Cay
• Marina Cay
• McCartney Cay
• Mingo Cay
• Nanny Cay
• Parrot Cay
• Pine Cay
• Plandon Cay
• Protestant Cay
• Ramgoat Cay
• Round Cay
• Salt Cay
• Sandy Cay
• Scilly Cay
• Silly Cay
• Steven Cay
• Thatch Cay
• Trunk Cay
• Turtledove Cay
• Water Cay
• Waterlemon Cay
• Whistling Cay

Translations

edit small island — see key

See also

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• isle, islet, island

Etymology 2

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See quay.

Noun

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cay (plural cays)

1. Obsolete spelling of quay (“structure for loading vessels”).
   • 1640, William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse, of the rare Adventures, and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteene yeares Travailes […]‎[1], page 130:But (by your leave) I had a hard welcome in my landing, for bidding farewell to the Turkes, who had kindly used me three dayes, in our passage from the Castles, the Master of the boate saying adio Christiano: There were foure French Runnagates standing on the Cay; who hearing these words, fell desperatly upon me blaspheming the Name of Jesus, and throwing me to the ground, beate me most cruelly: […]
   • 1666, A Relation of the Defeating Card. Mazarine & Oliv. Cromwel’s Design […]‎[2], page 128:But to return to our Enemies: being disembarked, they began to form a Squadron of 1500. men upon the Cay, which was nearest to the Town; […]

See also

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• vay-cay

Anagrams

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• -acy, YAC, cya, CYA