Definitions for quay

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Spelling: [kee, key, kwey]
IPA: /ki, keɪ, kweɪ/

Quay is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in quay (aquy).

Definitions for quay

noun

  1. a landing place, especially one of solid masonry, constructed along the edge of a body of water; wharf.
  2. Matthew Stanley, 1833–1904, U.S. politician: senator 1887–99, 1901–4.

Origin of quay

1690-1700; spelling variant (after French quai) of earlier kay (also key, whence the modern pronunciation) Old French kay, cay; akin to Spanish cayo shoal. See key

Examples for quay

And then, as they followed the quay of the Gave, they all at once came upon the Grotto.

Filling his pipe afresh, Juve resumed his walk along the quay.

On my last day but one I crossed to the Giudecca and ran into him on the quay.

The quay in perspective to the left, the man who shoulders that sack below.

It was raining in torrents, and the quay was absolutely deserted.

He bought one at a shop near the quay, and was back to the steps in ten minutes.

Then, as he regained the quay, Juve laughed in his false white beard.

He's pledged to find you on the quay, and he will—unless some one makes him drunk.

He was so interested in the crowd on the quay that he did not hear his father speaking to him.

Although the quay was not yet finished, the work seemed to be quite abandoned.

Word Value for quay
Scrable

16

Words with friends

16

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