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bestay
bestay
English
Verb
bestay (third-person singular simple present bestays, present participle bestaying, simple past and past participle bestayed)
- (transitive) To secure or steady; cause to come to a fixed position or state; bring to a halt or stop.
- 1834, Theodore Sedwick Fay, George Pope Morris, Samuel Woodworth, New-York mirror:
- Mid the half-furrowed field bestay the plough, Bid the twin toilers of the yoke go free, And aught that doth thee patient servitude, From closing sabbath to its blest return, [...]
- 1874, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of state papers, foreign series, of the reign of Elizabeth:
- Hereupon the magistrates of the town cried "Hola, hola, bestay the matter."
- 1940, Thornwell Jacobs, Red lanterns on St. Michael's:
- Bestay thee, bestay thee in fighting!
- 1834, Theodore Sedwick Fay, George Pope Morris, Samuel Woodworth, New-York mirror: