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shay1|ʃeɪ|
[A back-formation from chaise n. (ʃeɪz) mistaken for a plural. Also chay.]
= chaise n.
1717S. Sewall Diary 20 Sept., The Governour went through Charlestown..carrying Madam Paul Dudley in his shay. 1735in Corey Malden 666 Bought a shay {pstlg}27 10s. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life xx. (ed. 3) II. 237 Or who'd swelter and stoop Over linen and soap, While each tax-cart and shay To the Fair jolts away? 1841J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 71 Some in shays, and others on horseback. 1867O. W. Holmes Guardian Angel xiv. (1891) 170 It is n't everybody that can ride to heaven in a C-spring shay, as my poor husband used to say. 1873Ld. Lytton in Lady B. Balfour Lett. (1906) I. 298 The Bois..was full of..one-horse shays.
b. attrib., as shay boy, shay cart.
1840J. T. J. Hewlett P. Priggins xiv, He gives the coachman or *shayboy twice as much as is usual.
1823C. M. Westmacott Points of Misery 30 [She] puts him in a light *shay cart. 1835Dickens Sk. Boz, Greenwich Fair, Cabs, hackney-coaches, ‘shay’ carts. |