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▪ I. quay, n.|kiː|
[Later spelling of kay, key n.2, after F. quai. The pron. is that of key; cf. however quots. 1723 and 1850.]
a. An artificial bank or landing-place, built of stone or other solid material, lying along or projecting into a navigable water for convenience of loading and unloading ships.
1696Phillips (ed. 5), Quay or Kay, a broad Space pav'd upon the Shore of a River, Haven or Port, for the loading and unloading of Goods. 1723Swift Stella at Wood-Park 46 But now arrives the dismal day, She must return to Ormond-quay. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) II. 382 Repairs and improvement of the ancient quay. 1800Colquhoun Comm. & Pol. Thames i. 26 The small Vessels land their Goods at the Quays. 1850Tennyson In Mem. xiv, If..I went down unto the quay [rime to-day], And found thee lying in the port. 1884Pae Eustace xviii. 233 A small quay ran along the north of the little harbour.
b. attrib. and Comb., as quay-berth, quay-charges, quay-dues, quay-edge, quay-head, quay-holder, quay-labourer, quay-like adj., quay-man, quay-master, quay-rail, quay-room, quay-side (hence quay-sider), quay-space, quay-stone, quay-wall, etc.; quay crane = wharf crane; quay-punt (in full, Falmouth quay-punt), a small fore-and-aft-rigged half-decked two-masted sailing boat, orig. used on the river Fal for transporting stores between ship and shore.
1969Jane's Freight Containers 1968–69 286/3 Stevedoring companies who already have modern mechanised equipment at their disposal (quay-cranes, pontoon-cranes, trucks and elevators). 1977Hongkong Standard 12 Apr. (Business Suppl.) 4/5 The group has a total of seven quay cranes.
1889P. H. Emerson Eng. Idyls 128 Paddling to a quay-head, they landed.
1798R. Dodd Port Lond. 9 The legal quay-holders and wharfingers.
c1820S. Rogers Italy, Como 28 A quay-like scene, glittering and full of life.
1886D. Kemp Man. Yacht & Boat Sailing (ed. 5) 341 Table of offsets (Falmouth quay punt). 1925Yachting Monthly xxxix. 39/2 A quay punt before the war cost about {pstlg}120 to build. 1971Country Life 20 May 1224/1 They were the bum boats of the western world and ranged from such rugged deep-keel craft as the Quay Punts of Falmouth to the graceful Deal galleys.
1936Dylan Thomas in Contemp. Poetry & Prose 53 Let the first Peter from a rainbow's quayrail Ask the tall fish.
1862Ansted Channel Isl. i. iii. (ed. 2) 40 The quay-room was extremely narrow and restricted.
1903Westm. Gaz. 31 Dec. 5/3 He saw another man climbing up the quayside ladder. 1928Daily Tel. 7 Feb. 14/1 The foundations..rested in the rock found 70 ft. under the two quaysides. 1974Times 12 Nov. 3/1 Quayside fish merchants at Hull. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVII. 663/1 Local fishermen..used to sell their hake, cod and herring on the quayside.
1820Keats Lamia i. 224 His galley now Grated the quay-stones. 1938Dylan Thomas in 20th Cent. Verse Jan./Feb. 3, I make this in a warring absence when Each ancient, stone-necked minute of love's season Harbours my anchored tongue, slips the quaystone.
1798R. Dodd Port Lond. 7 Regular quay-walls on both sides the river.
Hence quay v.1 trans., to provide with a quay. Also quayed |kiːd| ppl. a.
1799W. Tooke View Russian Emp. I. 256 The whole extent of the left-hand bank, Catharine the second caused to be quayed with granite. 1807J. Barlow Columb. iv. 592 Quay the calm ports and dike the lawns I lave. 1857Ecclesiologist XVIII. 175 The quayed and purified Thames.
▪ II. † quay, v.2 Obs. rare—1.
[? Alteration of quail v.]
trans. To depress, subdue, daunt.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. viii. 14 Therewith his sturdie corage soon was quayd, And all his sences were with suddein dread dismayd.
▪ III. quay
obs. form of whey. |