TAIL-BAY

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay.

2.
n.

The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.


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