Last Updated：2025/11/19

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bay

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Source Word

bay

IPA(Pronunciation)

/beɪ/

broadly figuratively

Japanese Meaning

狩猟犬が狩りを行う際、または攻撃された際に興奮して発する遠吠え / （転じて）猟犬と獲物との最高潮の衝突

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From the ridge, the bay of the hounds echoed across the valley, sending hunters scrambling to follow.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

尾根の上から、猟犬たちの興奮した遠吠えが谷に響き渡り、猟師たちは慌てて追跡に向かった。

Sense（1）

The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.

The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey, / The fields are fragrant, and the woods are green. / Uncouple here, and let us make a bay / And wake the Emperor and his lovely bride, / And rouse the Prince, and ring a hunter's peal, / That all the court may echo with the noise.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

(by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.

Sense（3）

(figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.

Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

bays

（ plural ）

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